[VHFcontesting] ARRL Contest Robot and 903 mhz Q's

[John D'Ausilio]

Hear hear! At the very least it should have barfed on the wrong
version number instead of just blundering along and assuming the new
version. Lots of smelly code out there :)

de w1rt/john

On 1/29/06, KA6AMD <ka6amd at earthlink.net> wrote:
> One of the cardinal rules of the computer world is that new implementations
> should be backwards compatible with older versions.  Part of the Cabrillo
> spec is the "START-OF-LOG: version number" line.  The software the ARRL uses
> should look at the version number and decode the submitted log properly.  As
> long as it complies with one of the official version numbers, the robot
> should read it.  I think the ARRL should look at their robot and fix it to
> work correctly with the version number.
>