[UK-CONTEST] RSGB Cabrillo update/ Serial numbers

[Chris Tran GM3WOJ]

Hello all

Tim M0BEW wrote :
"If you have CT, TR, WL etc or anything that supports IOTA or WPX you can
enter, RSGB-AFS-CW, RSGB-AFS-SSB, RSGB-NFD, RSGB-SSB-FD, RSGB-160,
RSGB-COMMONWEALTH, RSGB-LOW-POWER, RSGB-IOTA, RSGB-21/28-SSB, RSGB-21/28-CW,
without any major editing what so ever."

Sorry to disagree with you, Tim, but this may not be correct.  For example,
both CT and WL do not support issuing serial numbers properly - in fact most
contest
software still seems to have a problem with serial numbers, especially if
you are
using more than 1 PC on a network, which you might wish to do for SO2R in
some of the above
contests, or in IOTA with its 'Multi-single' category.   Also, some software
(e.g. CT
in AFS) does not allow you to store the received exchange properly.

In last year's Jubilee contest (which I think was a success despite all
efforts to 'talk it down') and the 21/28 SSB, I used CT in WPX mode, then
had to spend a lot of time after the event checking mults. etc. to prepare
the entry.
Obviously Cabrillo would now reduce this post-contest checking, etc., but
there
may still be problems.  Will the new RSGB Cabrillo log-checking software be
able to check serial numbers ?

I'm guessing that once the contest calendar is finalised, the HFCC  might
approach some of the software writers and organise the creation of 'modules'
for the
specific RSGB contests - I don't think this is a big deal for the writers,
if we take
Writelog as an example it seems to support lots of 'smaller' contests.

By the way, I still think Writelog is no good for high-rate CW contesting,
because of the poor callsign/zone entry method, and the problem of not being
able
to edit a callsign while it's being sent (apart from maybe the last 1 or 2
letters) -
I must be alone in this criticism ! (With good old CT, you can correct as
much
of the callsign as you like, if you can type fast enough)

73
Chris     GM3WOJ