[W1SMH] RE: CT program and CABRILLO format for contests

Wed, 20 Feb 2002 07:25:08 -0500

There was some talk last night at the club meeting regarding the generation
and submission of Cabrillo formats for contesting.
This is an email from Ken Wolff, the designer and programmer of CT
indicating changes that he made recently to the programs.

In summary:

If you use CT version 9.69 or later to generate the cabrillo file, it  WILL
be called   yourcall.log
If you use earlier version of CT (which I believe is on the club computer)
the file will be called  yourcall.txt

However as Ken Wolff indicates in this email, he failed to delete some code
and incorrect files are generated by this version.
This should be fixed in 9.7.002.

So it's best to look at the file and see that the data is all there.  It is
usually somewhere.

According to the ARRL rules either extension is valid but you MUST have the
correct file format depending how you generated it.

If you don't have the correct version of CT which supports a particular
contest, you can use an editor to make the file from the .all file
generated by CT.  I've done this but it takes a while.

Be glad to answer any questions.

Joe
W1TW
----- Forwarded by Joseph Agius/SYBASE on 02/20/02 07:08 AM -----

                    "Ken Wolff"                                                                               
                    <kwolff@charte       To:     "'N7MAL'" <[email protected]>, [email protected]           
                    r.net>               cc:     (bcc: Joseph Agius/SYBASE)                                   
                                         Subject:     RE: [ct-user] CABRILLO                                  
                    12/12/01 05:28                                                                            
                    PM                                                                                        

For along time third party software has been using the old ARRL format
named <callsign>.log to read CT logs.

Rather than break all that software, I used <callsign>.txt as Cabrillo
output because the Cabrillo spec (http://www.kkn.net/~trey/cabrillo)
recommends, but does not require the .LOG extension.

After many requests, in CT969 I changed the output file name to the
standard <callsign>.log. Of course I forgot to delete the code (ten
lines later) that writes the old format for ARRL contests. This
*overwites* the Cabrillo output.

I am removing the old ARRL format code, so I expect to take some heat
when other conversion software breaks.

- Ken

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
On Behalf Of N7MAL
Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2001 11:58 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [ct-user] CABRILLO

Can someone explain, preferably AD1C or K1EA, why CT generates 2 similar
files, .LOG & .TXT ? It seems to my simple mind all this confusion about
which file to send could be eliminated if only one file were generated.
Perhaps Trey, N5KO, who fathered CABRILLO, could come up with a new,
dedicated, file extension .DUM. We would all know then all .DUM files go
to
contest committees.

(P.S. I forwarded a copy of this to my good friend N5KO)

MAL               N7MAL
BULLHEAD CITY, AZ
http://www.ctaz.com/~suzyq/N7mal.htm

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