[RTTY] Rules broken

[Jim Reisert AD1C]

The Cabrillo spec is just that, a spec, that must be adhered to for 
scoring purposes.  It must be followed to the letter.  The robot can 
only score your log when it's in the proper format.

Having said that, it seems like N1MM allows too much flexibility in 
programming the Sent exchange.  Writelog asks for your state and zone 
separately (and independent of the RTTY send buffers).  This allows the 
program to order them exactly the way Cabrillo expects, regardless of 
how you program your buffers, or what you send on the air.

This seems like a failure in N1MM, not a failure in following the rules.

73 - Jim AD1C

On 9/29/2008 1:50 PM, Peter Laws wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 10:54, Dick White <whiter26 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 
>> The Cabrillo checker apparently is asking for ZONE STATE while the rules say
>> STATE ZONE. Easy to look at the rules and set up that way but not complying
> 
> What CQ needs to do is be consistent.  I saw part of the thread on the
> RST-ST-ZN issue, confirmed that it was the order called for in the
> rules,  and set my macro accordingly.
> 
> And then the robot rejected my Cabrillo because it was "wrong".  Not my fault.
> 
> I fixed it with sed, but most folks don't have that option and are
> probably stuck doing it by hand.
> 
> Fooey on CQ!
> 

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Jim Reisert AD1C/Ø, <jjreisert at alum.mit.edu>, http://www.ad1c.us