[VHFcontesting] VHF-DX logger prob continued

[k9tms@mindspring.com]

In reading all this I can understand to a point why it was done. But to my
knowledge I didn't see any notice on the contest announcement to indicate
that Cabrillio had changed, that the ARRL should have done to avoid this
mass of confusion after the contest. 

One thing I find interesting is that in the specifications I can find no
reference to contacts made in the Laser Light Band. Being every thing now
needs a "numeric designator" for each band what they hell is it for Light?
I can see in the notes they took the term light out but no notes as to what
replaced it. These specifications are not clearly written in the first
place so trying to figure out what now needs to be in my software to
generate the correct entries is in some cases not so clear. The good news
is it only takes me a few minutes to make the code changes once I figure
out what the specs are. 

Tom - K9TMS


> [Original Message]
> From: <Jimk8mr at aol.com>
> To: <ke4yyd at gtcom.net>; <VHFcontesting at contesting.com>
> Date: 1/30/2006 12:08:19 PM
> Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] VHF-DX logger prob continued
>
> In a message dated 1/30/06 12:55:09 PM Eastern Standard Time,  
> ke4yyd at gtcom.net writes:
>
>
> There is no way I can be convinced that deprecating the VHF-DX  logging 
> program encouraged more contesters nor was it a necessity.   After all
the 
> ARRL robot was accepting the both the Alpha and Numeric band 
designations up 
> to the January 2006 contest.  Perhaps one of the ARRL  contesting folks
can 
> explain it
>  
> To save N1ND the time of explaining it again, here it is.  This  Cabrillo 
> change had missed my attention as well, though to me it seems it should 
be an 
> issue only to the software writers, once I fix up my January log.
>  
> 73  -  Jim  K8MR
>  
> --------------------------------------
> (from N1ND):
>
>
>
>
>
> About 18 months ago it was announced that Cabrillo specs  were being
changed 
> for band identifiers. Numeric designators replaced letters.  This was
done for 
> several reasons, including making Cabrillo VHF logs compatible  with
Logbook 
> of the World. The letter designator are found at 
> _http://www.kkn.net/~trey/cabrillo/qso-template.html_
(http://www.kkn.net/~trey/cabrillo/qso-template.html) 
>
> We allowed people a year and a half to update their software but the
robot 
> now  only accepts the numeric designators effective January 1. 
>  
> You need to edit the Band letters to the correct numeric designators then

> resubmit the log. 
> The reason you are only getting 50 errors is  that the robot only returns
the 
> first 50 problems it finds. 
> Thanks and 73Dan Henderson,  N1ND
> ARRL Contest Branch Manager
>
>
>
>  
> ____________________________________
>  From: Jimk8mr at aol.com [mailto:Jimk8mr at aol.com]  
> Sent: Friday, January 27, 2006 11:19 AM
> To: Henderson, Dan  N1ND
> Subject: Re: [4893.januaryvhf] Re: K8MR Log
>
>
>
>
> Dan,
>  
> My VHF SS log got accepted, but with about 50 lines rejected for "invalid

> band specification".  However the robot seems to have accepted another
100  or 
> so lines with the same band format (A-B-C-D-E).  
>  
> What gives?
>  
> Thanks,
>  
> Jim Stahl  K8MR
>  
>
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