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

[David Burger]

Firstly the Cabrillo Spec "contest lists" are dated.

I've actually written TWO contest loggers (in dBase3+ and MS Excel) which 
cover off all the contests I can enter from Oceania...   In essence, after 
analysis, there are just 2 cabrillo formats 'specified', serial number 
based, and fixed response (eg zone or power or name).    Agreed there are 
odd Cabrillo implementations like SS and others, but that's just academic 
for us in Oceania...

My loggers even allow me to generate a Cabrillo 'format compliant' log for 
anything (apart from the USA SS)...   I'd even made up a name for the 
Delaware QSOP entry I did back in 2002  what you put into the Contest name 
or Category is up the the "BOT" or organiser to sort out.  Even the Idaho 
QSO part listed earlier this month asks for Cabrillo.

It is easy to import cabrillo data into Excel, dBase3+, OS2database 
manager, Access etc, so if I were to ever become a contest organiser, it 
is a sensible starting point.

Jim is on the right path, and hopefully his excellent research will be 
picked up by the Cabrillo website. If you don't push, there is no 
progress.
Cheers,    VK2CZ

David Burger 


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