[WriteLog] ADIF --> Cabrillo Converter

[Don Cassel]

Bruce,

Good point. But while we are moving toward better standardization why not
have the contest organizers simply accept ADIF as the required file format
as do LOTW and eQSL. As it contains all the required information (or could
be made to) it would be unnecessary for a second standard to exist. It seems
ADIF is already in widespread use for importing and exporting QSO data in
logging software. While I think this makes a lot of sense Cabrillo has
become so widely used by contest organizers that I have few expectations
that it will ever happen.

Don VE3XD

> -----Original Message-----
> From: writelog-bounces at contesting.com 
> [mailto:writelog-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Bruce Sawyer
> Sent: November 10, 2003 5:53 PM
> To: writelog at contesting.com
> Subject: [WriteLog] ADIF --> Cabrillo Converter
> 
>  
> The experience we just had with the problem in the Cabrillo 
> output for WAE RTTY does lead me to wonder why each software 
> logging program needs to have its own Cabrillo generator.  
> One of the first things I noticed after the problem was 
> discovered with "T" being changed to "0" in the QTC records 
> of the Cabrillo output was that the ADIF output from Writelog 
> did not have this problem and appeared to be correct.  I can 
> see no information in a Cabrillo file for the log itself 
> which is not also included in the ADIF output.  Thus it would 
> seem that the most efficient use of everybody's time would be 
> for each logging vendor to concentrate on generating correct 
> ADIF output and then have one vendor source for a filter (to 
> use Unix terminology) which would take an ADIF file and 
> rewrite it as a Cabrillo file.  There would still be the need 
> for that program to solicit information about name, address, 
> contest club, soapbox comments, etc.  But I think the ADIF 
> input file would have all of the other information needed.
> 
> I frequently switch back and forth between WriteLog, TRlog, 
> and CT according to what contest and what mode I'm operating. 
>  (And also according to the whims of other people operating 
> with me when I do a multi-op effort.)  With just these three 
> programs, I find myself constantly fumbling with updates as 
> the contest robots become progressively more obnoxious in 
> their demands about the Cabrillo content.  I realize such a 
> move would require cooperation among the logging software 
> vendors, and there is always the question of who would 
> provide the Cabrillo generator.  But they all cooperated in 
> the generation of the Cabrillo specification, so such a move 
> wouldn't break new ground.
> 
> Bruce, ZF2NT
> 
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