We (the two moderators and I) will continue to support the program directly through the Groups.IO platform. I am therefore declaring that CabConverter’s end-of-life will be at the end of this contesting season (at the end of May). CabConverter’s purpose is now served much better by another program: SkookumLogger. I believe that other CabConverter users will have similar experiences. From MacLoggerDX I uploaded to LoTW, eQSL, and ClubLog, again without incident. I then exported my log from SkookumLogger to ADIF and imported the data into MacLoggerDX. When the contest was over, I generated a Cabrillo file and submitted it quickly and without any issues. You can read about it here: This weekend I played in the North American QSO party. I am recommending that all Macintosh-based contesters download and examine SkookumLogger. I’ve used it in a couple of contests, and I must say I’m impressed. SkookumLogger is a far superior solution to using MacLoggerDX + CabConverter. It is also free and available directly from the Apple App store. SkookumLogger is now a very mature logging program with a rich feature set. I did all this because there wasn’t a solid contest logger for the Macintosh. When it became clear that I needed a way to allow users to build support for contests themselves, I rewrote the program as CabConverter 2 ten years ago. In the intervening years, I published the first CabConverter 1.0 application written in RealBasic. Windows and DOS users had contest loggers, but nothing existed for that purpose for MacOS-so I wrote my own converter. What was a Cabrillo file? This prompted me to write the first scripts that would become CabConverter. At the end of the contest, when it was time to submit my log, I discovered the hole in my world. It was CQ WW DX Phone and, to be honest, I don’t even remember where I stuffed the exchange information. ![]() ![]() I was on an Icom 746Pro and a Power Mac G4 Cube running MacLoggerDX. It was 2002, sunspots were many, and I was working Europeans like they were next door. Fellow contesters, I discovered the joy of contesting within the first few months of being licensed.
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