[UK-CONTEST] Club Calls

[Rob - G4LMW]

Hi Dave

I did not cover the specifics of SD since I thought that most SD users would 
be aware of this from Paul, EI5SD:

(quote from last year)

"SD does not offer direct support for Club Calls, precisely because
of the length of the exchange - it's the one RSGB HF contest that
is not supported."

However, many continue to use Paul's great and simple program. Clearly (from 
last year's logs) plenty of you used SD then edited the club name afterwards 
in a text editor. What I am suggesting is that you can log the club names as 
something shorter during the contest, then use a text editor to do a "find & 
replace" using the longer abbreviation (!) in the final cabrillo.

73, Rob
G4LMW
http://www.G4LMW.co.uk



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave Sergeant" <dave at davesergeant.com>
To: <uk-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 7:09 AM
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] Club Calls


> On 10 Nov 2009 at 1:17, Rob - G4LMW wrote:
>
>> In order to automate the adjudication as much as possible, QSO details
>> need to match in both logs - including the club names. Since many
>> logging programs cannot cope with more than 25 or so characters, we have
>> devised a standard list of club names to be used in the logs. The list
>> can be found here: http://www.rsgbcc.org/hf/clubcalls.xls. It is quite
>> likely that you will log clubs that do not appear on this list. In these
>> cases, try and follow the naming convention used for the other clubs.
>
> I thought the limit with SD was rather less than 25 characters.
>
> At Bracknell we have never entered this event and don't appear in the
> list (but we DO enter AFS and CC). We did briefly discuss it the other
> day and it is possible that we will have one or two coming on.
>
> And I take it that 'CHILTERN DX GROUP' is different from 'Chiltern DX
> Club'?
>
> 73 Dave G3YMC
>
> http://www.davesergeant.com
>
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