[RTTY] CABRILLO TOOLS HELP

[Richard Ferch]

On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 at 17:52:53 -0800, Kok Chen wrote:

>Cabrillo is such an easy format to target, there must be *someone* who can 
>code up a small program, or a script, to convert from some other known 
>format. Most of you don't run MacOS X, or I would whip up a quick 
>converter app.

Problem is, there are so many slightly different Cabrillo formats. I have 
compiled a collection from the Cabrillo web site plus contest organizers' 
web sites, at
http://www.storm.ca/~ve3iay/qsoform.txt . You might find the variety 
surprising. It's not really hard to generate any one of them, nor are the 
differences all that difficult to deal with, but you wouldn't want to have 
to create a new converter for every contest either. That's the best thing 
about the WT4I Cabrillo Converter program; at least for the contests it 
supports (the list includes most RTTY contests), it takes care of all the 
minor differences for you.

73,
Rich VE3IAY