[UK-CONTEST] IOTA G3YMC SO QRP

[Ian White, G3SEK]

Dave Sergeant wrote:
>
>On the subject of Cabrillo, there is comment in this months RadCom
>(p. 39) on the lack of comments in received logs. Perhaps this is 
>because Cabrillo does not encourage this with stylised lines starting 
>'SOAPBOX'. OK, it is easy to add more lines, but it does not encourage 
>comments in the same way as free flowing text would.
>
It would be nice if the contest software allowed free-form entry of 
comments of any length; and when you say you're finished, it could then 
be automatically sliced up into Cabrillo-compliant SOAPBOX lines. That's 
just what computers are for.

Another thing that's disappearing with electronic logs are the 
photographs - which is ironic when the photographs themselves are going 
digital! This trend could easily be reversed through the contest 
software, by specifically offering the chance to input a URL where the 
photographs can be found, and again reformatting it automatically as a 
further SOAPBOX line.

However, Cabrillo is still quite new, and I suppose all these features 
will come in time.

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73 from Ian G3SEK