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

[David Pruett]

At 09:25 AM 1/30/2006, Kenneth E. Harker responded:
> > Another thing, was the program change announced before hand???  If it 
> was a
> > lot of us didn't get the info.
>
>The use of non-numerical designations for VHF+ bands in the file format
>standard was deprecated in August, 2002.  The use of 903 and 76G were
>deprecated in February, 2004, when 902 and 75G became the only accepted
>designations for those bands.  This is all documented in the spec History
>of Changes: http://www.kkn.net/~trey/cabrillo/updates.txt

Let's see:

- I write a widely used logging program which was one of the first to 
support Cabrillo.

- I'm on the ARRL Contest Advisory Committee

- I check the logs for the ARRL 160M and 10M contests

and...

- I was one of the authors who contributed to the original Cabrillo spec.

AND I NEVER WAS INFORMED OF THIS CHANGE.  While I don't think I'm the 
center of the universe, I don't think it's appropriate to make changes 
unannounced and expect people to check the Cabrillo web site to catch up.

Dave, K8CC