another Contest experience
Posted: 13 Jan 2015, 18:03
Last weekend I attended the DARC 10m contest in SSB mode. This contest requests for German stations a running serial number and a fixed suffix - the DOK number. LOG4OM is so nice to allow this configuration in the contest window. But it creates a separator between the serial number and the fixed DOK number. The sparator is a "-" sign. I could not find a place to customize this separator sign. The contest logging with LOG4OM worked without any problems. After the contest I used the ADIF to Cabrillo converter of SP7DQR. Unfortunately the contest robot refused my log because of the "-" separator. It expected a blank as separator. I edited my log manually and replaced all "-" signs with blanks which was not a big deal, because I had only 61 QSOs. With bigger logs this might be more pain.
It would be nice to get the option for customizing this separator. In this contest it should be a blank-sign, in other contests perhaps another separator is requested. At least the default value should be a blank.
It would be nice to get the option for customizing this separator. In this contest it should be a blank-sign, in other contests perhaps another separator is requested. At least the default value should be a blank.