[UK-CONTEST] CABRILLO (again!)

[Donald Field]

Steve et al

Too late to do an accurate check, but my guess is that about 25% of IOTA
contest logs are from SDI. But the .LOG and .SUM format has changed slightly
with different versions of the software and doesn't, strictly, conform to
the published RSGB format (just as well, as that didn't allow five-character
references for the exchange, so IOTA refs get truncated!).

So, yes, I'm delighted that Paul fully supports RSGB contests. My point was
that no rigid "standard" can be developed that will cover all contests. The
original RSGB format could not cope with IOTA (the one log I received that I
refer to as "RSGB compliant" had truncated IOTAs), with the result that the
definition has had to "flex" just as Cabrillo has to.

Hope this clarifies the matter. I certainly wouldn't want to slight Paul,
who does a fb job!

73 Don G3XTT

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Jones" <steve at rjtraining.fsnet.co.uk>
To: "Paul O'Kane" <paul at ei5di.com>; <uk-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2003 8:01 AM
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] CABRILLO (again!)


I must be the one then , as I have used sdi for the last two years and
certainly submitted .log files from it. Thanks to Paul we have at least one
logging program which fully supports rsgb contests!
73
Steve GW0GEI
---
Protected by Norton Internet Security 2002
All outgoing and incoming emails are scanned for viruses.
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Paul O'Kane
  To: uk-contest at contesting.com
  Sent: Saturday, January 11, 2003 11:47 PM
  Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] CABRILLO (again!)


  Don G3XTT said,

  > RSGB format was never seriously supported by software
  > authors or the contesting community (of 1300 logs in
  > IOTA last year, only one was RSGB format)

  I think a correction may be in order. I have seriously
  supported the RSGB format, with SD, since 1992.

  With regard to IOTA 2002, I'm informed that more entrants
  used SDI than any other logger?  The only log format from
  SDI is the RSGB format.  Some entrants may have submitted
  their .ALL file instead of the .LOG file, but that's another
  issue.  Please give an estimate of how many of the 1300
  logs submitted were from SDI.

  73,
  Paul EI5DI

  _______________________________________________
  UK-Contest mailing list
  UK-Contest at contesting.com
  http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/uk-contest



--- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts ---
multipart/alternative
  text/plain (text body -- kept)
  text/html
---
_______________________________________________
UK-Contest mailing list
UK-Contest at contesting.com
http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/uk-contest