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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.

Correct.

> 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 haven't really gotten the Cabrillo format done for anything but
the SS and CQ WW.  I will work on it in the next week or so.

Tree

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