According to the Cabrillo QSO Data Specification, the mode in the Cabrillo file is only supposed to be one of {CW,PH,FM,RY,DG). I'm usually a CW-only operator, but for Field Day this year, I dabbled in FT4 and FT8 because band conditions were poor at my QTH.?
I noticed that CabConverter doesn't appear to be mapping the modes from ADIF format properly.? In particular, FT8 is being passed through as mode FT8, and FT4 is appearing as MFSK (the ADIF specification says FT4 is mode MFSK, submode FT4).?
Looking at?CabrilloQSO.java?in CabConverter, it looks like the program consolidates a couple of ADIF modes to the correct values but passes through everything else directly from the ADIF mode attributes.? ?This seems broken.? Both FT4 and FT8 contacts should appear as mode DG in the Cabrillo file. This is what wsjtx does when generating its Cabrillo output.? Am I missing something here?? I've seen others in this group remark that they had to edit the Cabrillo file to manually make this change.
Thanks,
? ?Don KK4E
Don Deal