[RTTY] After the contest...

[Ekki Plicht (DF4OR)]

Ciao Paolo,

On Tuesday 07 March 2006 21:35, I2UIY wrote:
> After I finished my log-checking work for CQWW RTTY 2005,
> I put together some some suggestions to help who just
> finished a contest and now wants submit his log.

interesting reading, definetely.

You write:
> Why don’t we have a smart software that can recognise different versions of
> Cabrillo and – maybe – some other formats? Because nobody wants waste his
> time writing such a software without anything in return. Writing a real good
> log checking software is not easy because the software is supposed to catch
> most of the errors automatically and this is not easy to achieve considering
> the multiple options that ham callsigns involve.     

What would such a software do? Can you supply me with different examples of 
cabrillo log formats, and tell me which one would be the 'correct' one? Such 
a software doesn't seem impossible. I use Perl a lot and it's the right 
language to write such a program.

73,
Ekki, DF4OR