[UK-CONTEST] Top Band Distance Challenge...

[Dave Sergeant]

On 5 Jan 2003 at 15:11, Ian White, G3SEK wrote:

> As a newcomer to HF contesting, I definitely was confused by conflicting
> statements in contest rules about the treatment of Cabrillo logs.

It will be interesting how the RSGB handles Cabrillo for some of its 
contests. The Cabrillo 'specification' does seem somewhat of a hotch 
potch, with new formats being added as and when required. In 
particular, it does not currently support contests where both a 
serial number and other information (ie postcode, name etc) are 
received and any contests in this category (many RSGB ones!) must 
have non standard Cabrillo. And as we have seen with Stew Perry the 
robots seem to have their own and different rules.

The two contests I dabbled in this weekend (and having made a few 
contacts I felt duty bound to submit a log) were not required to be 
submitted in Cabrillo. In the EUCW contest I prepared the log in 
Notepad as Super Duper only accepts 8 characters of free text in Type 
11 (many of the smaller contests require more). In the AGCW QRP 
contest I did it in Super Duper which partly supported it (but 
doesn't do DXCC countries AND free text) and sent the .PRT file, 
having scored it by hand.

I suspect we are some way from having Cabrillo as the the defacto 
standard worldwide when there are a lot of small contests with rather 
odd exchanges and scoring schemes.

73s Dave G3YMC

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