[RTTY] CQ WW RTTY Practice Run Exchange

[J. Edward (Ed) Muns]

> I am testing a beta version of RUMped for Mac OSX by Tom
> DL2RUM.  By design his software needs to log the zone first
> followed by the state that may be counter to the CQ WW RTTY
> rule.
> 
> By default RUMped prepares the Cabrillo in the same format
> as you provided showing CALL 599 04 TX.  When we first
> discovered this potential issue, three of us sent sample .cbr
> logs to Paolo, I2UIY-NH7DX, to see if the 599 04 TX format
> would be acceptable.
> 
> Paolo has not replied so Tom, DL2RUM, patched RUMped. We
> now have to log QSO's as 03 CA, or whatever, and the software
> will format the Cabrillo correct.

Paulo is not available to answer email right now.  I'm in contact with Trey,
who is on the log checking team and the author of Cabrillo.

> BTW, it handles DX fine because they are only required to send
> the report and their zone.  For example, it the practice run my
> Cabrillo report for KG4SS shows 599 08 DX
> 
> When W6WRT called me I had to log his report as 03 CA but
> the resulting .cbr file was
> 
> QSO: 14000 RY 2008-09-26 0209 AA5VU         599 TX 04  W6WRT         599
> CA
> 03  0
> 
> My sending macro was easy to adjust and I will be sending
> 599 TX 04.... in the format that I assume others expect to see.
> 
> If this gets too hard, I will just quit the beta software and have
> fun in the contest using W7AY's cocoaModem software that will
> let me work the contest; however it does not log both numbers
> and states. I will log zones and just have fun and not worry with
> sending a log to the CQ robot.  I will be able to upload all QSO's
> to LoTW.

As I said in my last posting, it doesn't matter what order your sent or
received exchange is.  It doesn't matter how your software works.  The only
thing that probably does matter is having the submitted Cabrillo log format
be correct, which is RST ZN ST.  When I get confirmation on that, I'll post
here.  Worst case, you may need to do some post-contest editing on your
Cabrillo file if the exchange order matters and your log has ZN and ST
swapped.  Try to submit a log because it helps the log checking process
across all the logs.

> Hope to work you in the contest!

Same here.  In the second practice last night, though, the signals were
buried in band noise on 80 and 40 ... difficult copy here.

73,
Ed - P49X (W0YK)