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[Joe Taylor]

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I noticed when preparing my log for submission after the CW SS 
that the Cabrillo file produced by running POST on the log does 
not conform exactly to the format posted on the Web and printed 
in November QST.  So I made my own conversion program to line 
things up in the right columns.  Somewhat later, I noted that 
messages on the TRLog Reflector suggest that it is not that 
critical to have it exactly right.

On the other hand, when I used POST (the one that came with 
TR v 6.45) to convert my multi-op K2PT ARRL-160 log to Cabrillo, 
I got much bigger surprises.  The first few QSOs look like this:

QSO:  1800 CW 1999-12-04 2201 K2PT       W4MYA       599  599 Va
QSO:  1800 CW 1999-12-04 2202 K2PT       KB1EGB      599  599 Nh
QSO:  1800 CW 1999-12-04 2202 K2PT       WF2W        599  599 WNy
QSO:  1800 CW 1999-12-04 2203 K2PT       K8OQL       599  599 Wv
QSO:  1800 CW 1999-12-04 2204 K2PT       WK2G        599  599 SNj
QSO:  1800 CW 1999-12-04 2205 K2PT       AA1K        599  599 De
QSO:  1800 CW 1999-12-04 2206 K2PT       K2UG        599  599 ENy
QSO:  1800 CW 1999-12-04 2207 K2PT       K1ZM        599  599 Em
QSO:  1800 CW 1999-12-04 2208 K2PT       N1RR        599  599 Em
QSO:  1800 CW 1999-12-04 2210 K2PT       N4AR        599  599 Ky

Not only are many things in the wrong column numbers, but the 
signal report part of the "exchange sent" comes after the other
guy's call, and the section part of our "exchange sent" does not
appear at all.  

I made another fix-up program to make the file conform with the
Cabrillo specification, e.g.:

QSO:  1800 CW 1999-12-04 2201 K2PT          599 SNJ    W4MYA         599 Va 
QSO:  1800 CW 1999-12-04 2202 K2PT          599 SNJ    KB1EGB        599 Nh 
QSO:  1800 CW 1999-12-04 2202 K2PT          599 SNJ    WF2W          599 WNy
QSO:  1800 CW 1999-12-04 2203 K2PT          599 SNJ    K8OQL         599 Wv 
QSO:  1800 CW 1999-12-04 2204 K2PT          599 SNJ    WK2G          599 SNj
QSO:  1800 CW 1999-12-04 2205 K2PT          599 SNJ    AA1K          599 De 
QSO:  1800 CW 1999-12-04 2206 K2PT          599 SNJ    K2UG          599 ENy
QSO:  1800 CW 1999-12-04 2207 K2PT          599 SNJ    K1ZM          599 Em 
QSO:  1800 CW 1999-12-04 2208 K2PT          599 SNJ    N1RR          599 Em 
QSO:  1800 CW 1999-12-04 2210 K2PT          599 SNJ    N4AR          599 Ky 

Is all this necessary?  Are you planning to fix POST, or have you already 
done so?

My brother (K2PT) and I really like TR-Log -- with the exception 
of this minor nuisance, it did a great job for us in the 160m contest.

			-- 73 de Joe, K1JT



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