[CQ-Contest] Trying to compile list of all known Cabrillo contest IDs

[Ed K1EP]

At 1/7/2006 06:51 AM, Pete Smith wrote:
>One might ask, in all innocence, so long as the string following the CONTEST: tag is unique, who the heck cares?  The sponsor's robot can be trained to see the string for its particular contest, and off we go.

The problem is that in this case the spec defined the contest name strings.  The spec "shoulda" just said that the string following CONTEST: should be X characters long, left up to the discretion of the contest organizer to make unique.  I think it was a short coming of the spec to actually define a specific number of contests that could use Cabrillo.  It was self defeating, in that to have Cabrillo widely adopted, it needed more contests to use it.  Seems obvious in hindsight.    I am sure that somewhere on a DVD or CD there is a string encoded with the title and artist.  I don't think that the spec for DVDs or CDs has every single title or artist in it.  I agree in with some of Brett's arguments (I tried for years to implement RS-232 spec devices), but the spec should just be amended to remove the specific contest names.  
 

>73, Pete N4ZR
>
>At 10:04 PM 1/6/2006, VR2BrettGraham wrote:
>>AD1C posted:
>>
>>>I'm trying to compile a list of all known Cabrillo contest IDs.  My 
>>>results so far can be found at:
>>>
>>>     http://www.ad1c.us/contest-id.htm
>>>
>>>If you know of any that are not on the list, or have any corrections, 
>>>please reply to me directly (I'm not presently subscribed to the reflector).
>>
>>The Cabrillo specification itself defines that at:
>>
>>http://www.kkn.net/~trey/cabrillo/spec.html
>>
>>Where it states:
>>
>>"CONTEST: contest-name
>>
>>The contest-name must be one of the following: AP-SPRINT, ARRL-10, 
>>ARRL-160, ARRL-DX-CW, ARRL-DX-SSB, ARRL-SS-CW, ARRL-SS-SSB, ARRL-UHF-AUG, 
>>ARRL-VHF-JAN, ARRL-VHF-JUN, ARRL-VHF-SEP, ARRL-RTTY, BARTG-RTTY, CQ-160-CW, 
>>CQ-160-SSB CQ-WPX-CW, CQ-WPX-RTTY, CQ-WPX-SSB, CQ-VHF, CQ-WW-CW, 
>>CQ-WW-RTTY, CQ-WW-SSB, DARC-WAEDC-CW, DARC-WAEDC-RTTY, DARC-WAEDC-SSB, 
>>DL-DX-RTTY, IARU-HF, JIDX-CW, JIDX-SSB, NAQP-CW, NAQP-RTTY, NAQP-SSB, 
>>NA-SPRINT-CW, NA-SPRINT-SSB, NEQP, OCEANIA-DX-CW, OCEANIA-DX-SSB, 
>>RSGB-IOTA, SAC-CW, SAC-SSB, SARTG-WW-RTTY, STEW-PERRY or TARA-RTTY."
>>
>>Therefore, the list you have compiled is not correct, full stop.
>>
>>It does help illustrate the anarchy that Cabrillo has become, with
>>so many deviations being devised & masquerading behind the
>>name... in due course, such a list may just take on a life of
>>its own & fuel the anarchy.
>>
>>Why is it so difficult to work with the spec?
>>
>>73 & H(L)NY, VR2BrettGraham
>>
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