Object: Work as many CW stations worldwide as possible within each session. The CW OPEN (CWO), which is held on the first Saturday in September, is guided by the same principles along with enhancements to make it a serious, annual competitive event. Note: The 2022 CW Open Will Be Held On September 3, 2022īackground: CWops sponsors the CWops Test, or CWT, which are fun, weekly competitions at times thought to be optimum for amateurs in ITU Regions 1, 2, and 3. Adding Cabrillo needs more than this and at the end user will need to edit manually the file because there will be lot of information not included on it.The 2020 results can be found in the October 2020 issue of the Solid Copy newsletter.ĬWops is grateful to Icom America for sponsoring the CW OPEN awards But, believe me, any simple thing (from user point of view) need many many hours of programming. I would do it if adding Cabrillo would be easy. Fast and easy! -) Even if you only want to work in a contest as checking list, it's much better to use any contest program instead of logging directly to Swisslog.Īs you may understand there is not need to try to implement Cabrillo format in Swisslog where lot of information will be missed and will require lot of user post manual editing. This way you will be using the best of both worlds: logging and contesting. Afterwards, you may generate the ADIF file to be imported in Swisslog to keep your log updated for statistics, etc. At the end of the contest then you generate the Cabrillo to be sent to the contest manager. When you want to work in a contest the best way is to use any of the nice available contest applications. Of course they all implement the option to export into Cabrillo format including the requested information for contest managers: claimed score, category etc. There are many good contest applications (even for free such as N1MM) which handles all contests, scoring, multipliers and all things related to contest. But it's not prepared at all to include and handle contest needed information such as category, different exchanges, points, multipliers etc. Swisslog is a logging program not a contest program though implements a very basic contest features :increment RST sent number automatically to be used as serial number exchange and dupe checking in a range of dates. Cabrillo included contest name, category, claimed score, contest exchange (which is very different on every contest). It's used to send QSOs, exchange and contest information to contest managers. Cabrillo is a format used exclusively for contest.

Cabrillo logging program free download