[RTTY] CQ Worldwide DX Contest, RTTY entry

[Graeme Caselton]

Many thanks to everyone for the suggestions and offers of help. I
want to do an entry for this comp [the biggest I've done so far],
some I'm using three methods to see what happens.

[1] Jim AD1C is doing a conversion using Writelog.
[2] I've got a copy of adif2cabr111.zip from the suggested website
and I'll try that.
[3] I'm playing with Excel search/replace etc on the ADI file. 

Using Jim's work as the 'formal entry', I want to see how close I can
get to Jim's result with methods [2] and [3].

Going forward to the day the PII/PK-232 gets replaced with a
P4/Soundcard, which RTTY package offers a good contest RTTY front-end
given that I use DXKeeper for my logbook, and would need to import
the resulting contest log into that? People seem to be split between
N1MM and Writelog.

Thanks again,

Graeme
G6CSY

> 
> Graeme
> The CQ robot is quite exigeant, so I think doing your cabrillo
> manualy gonna be
> a hard job! I have already done it with excel, but it really
> requires a good
> knowledge of Excel and the Cabrillo-format... (btw it won't give
> you the
> claimed score, but I think the field is not absolutely required)
> 
> I think the best way would be to import your ADIF log into a
> contest software
> like N1MM (freeware) or mixW (shareware)... the only thing you need
> to do is to
> make sure your software generated ADI <TAGS:> compatible with the
> software in
> which you want to import... (for ex. <SRX:2>05 for the zone...
> depending on the
> software you use)
> Anyway, converting <TAGS:> is a very easy  job, using the "search
> and replace"
> function of any text editor... (assuming you have entered the Zone
> and the state
> in different fields, like name and qth...)
> More complicated is gonna be to learn the minimum required to
> import and create
> a Cabrillo, with a contest software you have never seen before. (If
> you speak
> french, I have recently written a "how to create a cabrillo using
> mixW" for a
> french station who asked for my assitance)
> 
> Other possibility: I have tried recently a log-checker (freeware)
> which allows
> import in ADI and  export to Cabrillo. I can't remember the nane
> right now ( it
> is German I think) but it is intalled on my PC at home,  so I'll be
> able to
> give
> you the name  later... You may also find something usable in
> http://www.dk0tui.de/ham/hams_log.html
> 
> last:  IF you entered  "State" and "zone" in different ADI fields,
> just send me
> your ADI, I l'll do it for you... If you entered everything in the
> same
> "comment field" you need to do something in your soft first, before
> exporting
> the ADI.
> For example I can deal easily with <NAME:2>05  and <COMMENT:2>NY
> but something
> like <COMMENT:5>05 MA is gonna take me too much time !
> 
> 
> best regards - Pat
> http://f6irf.blogspot.com/
> 
> 
> 
> 
> [RTTY] CQ Worldwide DX Contest, RTTY entry
> from [Graeme Caselton] [Permanent Link][Original]
> 
> To:  rtty at contesting.com
> Subject:  [RTTY] CQ Worldwide DX Contest, RTTY entry
> From:  Graeme Caselton <gcaselton at yahoo.com>
> Date:  Tue, 27 Sep 2005 17:56:45 -0700 (PDT)
> List-post:  <mailto:rtty at contesting.com>
> 
> Good morning all....
> 
> having taken part in the contest and worked some 200+ stations, I'd
> like to enter a log for the contest. As I don't have a 'contest
> station' as such, I use WinWarbler for RTTY, which means that I
> cannot score the contest or count multipliers etc. The file I have
> available is in ADIF format.
> 
> Can I just use a text editor to remove the ADIF comments and then
> submit that? Without any scores? If the contest has a cabrillo
> template, do the log entries have to be spaced an exact number of
> characters apart, or do they just have to be in the correct
> sequence?
> 
> Graeme
> G6CSY
> 
> 
> 
> 



		
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