[RTTY] Log's in RTTY

[DJ3IW Goetz]

Hi Jim and all:

> meant your birth-given name, not the exachange you sent. So now your
Cabrillo
> log file says Harold instead of BIGCAT.  What is the log checking software
> supposed to do other than score your log as 0 points because the exchange
you
> sent was not copied by anyone in the contest?
>
 I sure would like the log checking software to do just this with the guys
 sending zone 17 instead of the correct zone 16.

73 de Goetz
dj3iw@t-online.de
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Reisert" <ad1c@yahoo.com>
To: "K4SB" <hamcat@directvinternet.com>; <rtty@contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 9:06 PM
Subject: Re: [RTTY] Log's in RTTY


> --- K4SB <hamcat@directvinternet.com> wrote:
>
> > This is my observation on Cabrillo though
> >
> > 1. If the log checking software for a RTTY contest isn't smart enough
> > to ignore SSB/CW, it is dumber than I thought.
>
> Ed, I disagree.  Let's say a friend helps you submit your log because you
don't
> have Internet access.  Instead of mailing your log, he Emails a different
> Cabrillo file from a CW or SSB contest.  The log checker has to kick it out,
it
> can't just assume that the person who sent it *really* meant RTTY.  In this
> case, it certainly did NOT.
>
> > 2. If the log isn't designated a checklog, Cabrillo should
> > automatically change it to low power.
>
> How can you make that assumption?  I sure can't.  I'd rather it be
classified
> with the high power logs, so the low-power guys don't get penalized by a guy
> who turned his amp on but didn't indicate the power category in his log.
> Again, I say kick the log out.
>
> > 3. Since the Name is part of the exchange, and in an exact location,
> > Cabrillo should know that the hell the proper Name is.
>
> The Cabrillo format shows the exchange you are supposed to have sent.  If
for
> some unknown reason you fill in that field incorrectly, but your RTTY
messages
> are programmed to send what you *should* have been sending, how is the log
> checking software to know?  You sent "BIGCAT" as your name, but your birth
> certificate says Harold.  When you filled in the NAME field, you thought it
> meant your birth-given name, not the exachange you sent.  So now your
Cabrillo
> log file says Harold instead of BIGCAT.  What is the log checking software
> supposed to do other than score your log as 0 points because the exchange
you
> sent was not copied by anyone in the contest?
>
> Cabrillo is supposed to be dumb - just a record of each exchange you sent
and
> received.  The log checking software should take the Cabrillo log at face
> value.  It's not the responsibility of the sponsor or the software to try to
> figure out what you meant, only YOU can do that.  That's why people should
> check their logs before mailing them to the contest sponsor.
>
> 73 - Jim AD1C
>
>
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