[TRLog] RAC Cabrillo

[Richard Ferch]

The Cabrillo spec only lists those contests whose organizers have talked to
the group that devised the Cabrillo spec and got their contest included
(basically ARRL, CQ, NCJ and a couple of others). Increasingly, other
contest sponsors, such as RAC, are seeing the merits of the Cabrillo file
format and using it, even though their contests are not on the official
list. My suggestion would be for POST to produce a file that looks like a
valid Cabrillo file for all contests. The only difficulty with this arises
when the contest has an exchange that is so different from anything in the
spec that it's not clear what format to use for the QSOs. Unless and until
the sponsors for such "oddball" contests get their contest included in the
spec so everyone knows what the file is supposed to look like, POST could
either use Tree's guess at what the Cabrillo file should look like, or
refuse to output a Cabrillo file for any such contests (there shouldn't be
many of these; the most common exchange formats are already covered in the
supported list).

73,
Rich

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sylvan Katz" <jskatz@sk.sympatico.ca>
To: "Richard Ferch" <ve3iay@rac.ca>; <trlog@contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2001 8:41 PM
Subject: Re: [TRLog] RAC Cabrillo


> Richard
>
> Thanks for the info
>
> > POST only produces valid Cabrillo files for the contests named in the
> > Cabrillo spec. RAC isn't one of those. POST will produce a LOG.CBR file
> for
>
> Strange that POST would even allow you to produce a Cabrillo log if it is
> not supported in the Cabrillo spec.
>
>
> .. sylvan
>
> ----------------
> Sylvan Katz, VE5ZX
> Saskatoon, SK
>
>


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