[UK-CONTEST] Club Calls

[Rob - G4LMW]

Peter

If the name of anyone's club is not listed in the robot drop-down, the 
situation is no different to any other RSGB contest. You select "None of 
these" and the robot will take it from your Cabrillo header. If it is not 
there, you can enter it in the last stage of the robot submission.

The "preferred abbreviation" file is simply an alternative to submitting the 
full length name of the club - since many loggers can only cope with 20 
characters. The list was original derived from all the logged clubs from 
previous contests. The list bears no relation to that on the drop-down list 
on the log submission page. I see no reason why it should?

The drop-down contains a "sensible" full length name of each club. The Excel 
file contains two columns - a fully expanded name ("and" instead of "&" for 
example - the name that should be exchanged during the contest) and the 
second is as descriptive a short name as possible of no more than 20 
characters. Making the robot drop-down match either of these columns would 
not make sense (the list is used for ALL contests, not just Club Calls). If 
club names are not on the excel list then please edit your cabrillo BEFORE 
submission to show the FULL club name.

A big deal seems to be being made of the excel list. It is there to help, 
not hinder. Any log submitted with the full club name will be just as 
welcome (in fact, preferred), but trying to score logs with an infinite 
number of ways of abbreviating the same thing is extremely time consuming.

Anytown and District Amateur Radio Society (over 40 chars)  =
AADARS
Anytown ADARS
Anytown A.D.A.R.S.
Anytown and DARS
Anytown & D ARS
Anytown & Dist ARS
Anytown & Dist. ARS
Anytown & D AR Soc.
A & D ARS
A and D ARS
A & D AR Soc
etc
etc
(all in any attempt to get them to 20 chars or less)

The adjudication software compares the sent exchange and received exchange 
electronically. Computers like things to be EXACTLY the same. As it is, the 
software goes through a complex sequence of removing double spaces, full 
stops, expanding "&" to "and", "RS" to "Radio Society" etc. in an attempt to 
end up with the full club names again.

So, submit your log with "Anytown and District Amateur Radio Society" (all 
cabrillos can be amended) and you will be fine. BUT if you need to 
abbreviate it, please use the "preferred abbreviation"............unless you 
want to get the results some time after Easter 2011?

Hopefully, this answers all the questions regarding the log submissions and 
why things are as they are..........now send those (correct) logs in!

73, Rob
G4LMW
Adjudicator, Club Calls


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Hobbs" <peter at tilgate.co.uk>
To: "UK Contest reflector" <uk-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, November 14, 2010 10:19 PM
Subject: [UK-CONTEST] Club Calls


> One more anomaly, identified when thinking about posting my entry, is
> that the club list in the robot's pull-down menu is different from the
> Excel file of club names that is linked from the rules page.  The latter
> has been updated during the last 24 hours but there are still clubs
> missing from both lists.  There are also conflicts between some club
> names in both lists.  If your club is missing from the pull-down list
> (e.g. Ossett AR Ops) I'm not sure how you go about posting your log.
>
> Please note that this is by no means a gripe against the CC - the system
> is complex and I'm sure hard to get right 100% of the time, but I would
> suggest that if a club name filter is to be introduced as a condition of
> entry, then it better be comprehensive, or else removed and the club
> identified in the log header, as in previous years.
>
> 73, Peter G3LET
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