[ct-user] Re: [CQ-Contest] Log checking Revisited

[Sid Ashen-Brenner]

Cabrillo templates / formats at:
http://www.kkn.net/~trey/cabrillo/qso-template.html  (among other sites)
This site was found on a simple google search on "cabrillo"
As you will see from the various examples given on the site, for some 
contests the line limit appears to be around 80 characters, for others it's 
over 90.  The example given for this weekend's IARU contest is a clear as 
mud.
What does Wordpad do to the file for you?  (Since it is able to handle 
larger files)

At 03:24 07/14/2003 +0000, you wrote:
>OK time out boys and girls enuf. I know how edit a file, that is not my
>question.
>Here is an excerpt of the cabrillo format from its author:
>"""so a format which is both fixed column and space delimited was found
>to be the least disruptive to present log-checking procedures."""
>
>By adding the extra letter does that mess-up the "fixed column"????
>
>In notepad adding the extra letter wraps the line, in Word the extra letter
>is the 81st character on the line.
>
>
>
>MAL                N7MAL
>BULLHEAD CITY, AZ
>www.citlink.net/~suzyq/N7mal.htm
>www.geocities.com/n7mal
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "N7MAL" <N7MAL at citlink.net>
>To: "N7MAL" <N7MAL at citlink.net>; <cq-contest at contesting.com>
>Cc: <ct-user at contesting.com>
>Sent: Monday, July 14, 2003 2:04 AM
>Subject: [ct-user] Re: [CQ-Contest] Log checking Revisited
>
>
>Several suggestions have been made to edit the Cabrillo file. Can it be
>edited, without screwing up the format????? Is a Cabrillo line a specific
>length?????
>
>MAL                N7MAL
>BULLHEAD CITY, AZ
>www.citlink.net/~suzyq/N7mal.htm
>www.geocities.com/n7mal
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "N7MAL" <N7MAL at citlink.net>
>To: <cq-contest at contesting.com>
>Cc: <ct-user at contesting.com>
>Sent: Sunday, July 13, 2003 10:19 PM
>Subject: [CQ-Contest] Log checking Revisited
>
>
>Regarding the recent thread where it appears log checkers have some latitude
>in determining whether we copy an exchange correctly or incorrectly.
>Here is an excerpt from this weekend with PJ2HQ. CT did not allow enough
>room to type the exchange and as a result I result I could be penalized even
>though I copied the exchange correctly(VERONA).
>PJ2HQ         599 VERON (This from the Cabrillo file)
>
>I participate for fun but for some of the 'big-guns' one or more points
>reduced because the logging software didn't leave room could spell doom.
>
>MAL                N7MAL
>BULLHEAD CITY, AZ
>www.citlink.net/~suzyq/N7mal.htm
>www.geocities.com/n7mal