[CQ-Contest] Cabrillo forever

[Jack Brindle]

The Cabrillo format is very well defined as a protocol. The problem  
is that there is now a blank field in the Stew Perry data where one  
used to be. By parsing for blanks, the parser fails. By parsing for  
field positions it should work just fine. The bug is in the parsing  
programs that parse on blanks, AND those that ignore the field  
placement and separate the fields with blanks (contrary to the  
Cabrillo specification).

Either way, it can be fixed by the renegade programmers...

On Jan 2, 2007, at 5:46 AM, Marijan Miletic', S56A wrote:

> W2EV: Robot authors, please seriously re-examine the way that QSO:  
> data is parsed.
>
> Once upon a time, matematician of internet fame C response was:  
> While ch=' ' do Read(ch);
>
> I always believed that QSO is valid if callsign AND RST report are  
> exchanged.
>
> With present technology it would be easy to digitize AGC voltage,  
> i.e. S meter reading.  But the dumbing trends prevail...
>
> HNY & 73 de Mario, S56A, N1YU
>
>
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- Jack Brindle, W6FB
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