[SD-User] Club Calls setup ?

[Richard W L Limebear]

> Paul O'Kane wrote:
> 
> > Very sorry, but this is the one RSGB contest that SD
> > does not support - simply because the club names must
> > be recorded in full - for example "Loughton and Epping
> > Forest Amateur Radio Society".
> > 
> > SD permits a maximum of 11 characters - perhaps the
> > RSGB might assign appropriate abbreviations for each
> > affiliated club, if only for contest logging purposes.

I'm amazed that a longer field length is not possible.

 "Dave Sergeant" writes:
> Clearly for the club calls contest one should be encouraged to submit 
> Cabrillo logs and the unlimited club names seem to be incompatible 
> with generating a suitable Cabrillo format - has one actually been 
> produced for it?

Yes, see RSGB HFCC website - includes examples for CCC in Cabrillo format.
I logged call/serial and outputted in cabrillo, then added the rest manually
with Wordstar and Notepad. Hope I got the final score right. Remains to be 
seen whether RSGB can read it or not - otherwise they're in for a paper log.

> Agreed abbreviation codes could 
> certainly be allocated to each Affiliated Society just for the 
> purpose of this contest.

It would at least be easier if one could write "ARS" "RC" and "ARC" instead
of the full Monty - what a pain. Likewise the names of some clubs eg "Enfield,
Southgate and district Wireless, plasticine and electronics society" don't 
help either. Wonder if my use of the "&" symbol will upset them.

73
Richard W L Limebear G3RWL
g3rwl at amsat.org
FOC # 1188

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