On May 10, 7:26 am, ZL wrote:
Rick Fuller wrote:
I use a Cambridge Model 10 logger. ...clip...
Can anyone on RAS provide some advice or tell me what
I'm doing wrong? ...clip...
Rick,
You need to use the "correct" version of conv-cam.exe (v2.0.2) to
initially create the *.igc file. That is available from the IGC page athttp://www.fai.org/gliding/gnss/freeware.asp
From your log files, you used the CAI PC Software V5.884 to create the
igc file before running cai2igc on it. That would not pass the OLC
validation check last year, and it appears it still won't.

The steps:
1.Download cai file from logger
2.Run conv-cam.exe on that cai file - generates an igc file
3.Run cai2igc.exe on cai and igc file - appends ascii encoded cai file
onto the end of your igc file
4.submit final igc file to olc via web interface

There is a nice little free tool that automates the process of
generating the igc file for the olc from your cai file

http://www.abqsoaring.org/misc_files/CAI_fix.htm ...clip....

-Dave Leonard

Dear Dave,

Thank you very much for posting this information! It's been a
frustrating 3 years for me with OLC. For 2 years I tried simply to
upload flights from SeeYou, and was never successful. It seemed too
burdensome to troubleshoot, here all alone in the woods with no one to
look over my shoulder and identify which simple error out of 10,000
possible errors was at fault. Then this year I attended the SeeYou
tutorial at SSA2007 and found that I needed to upgrade the software.

Well, this didn't work, and the upgraded software is incompatible with
my laptop's video card to boot, but with the new OLC front-end, direct
upload was easier to find, and the fact that the files had to be
in .igc format seemed helpful. So I used the Cambridge DOS utility to
convert. But each try was 'invalid' and the 3rd kept getting
deleted. Finally your post contained the answer.

Uploading is still slightly tedious, but at least now it's possible.
Bring the Cambridge 25 home from the glider, plug into the back of the
DOS computer, upload the file; then re-boot the computer to Linux,
email the file to my Windoze computer, save it there, convert to .igc
with cai2igc4olc.exe, log in to OLC, and upload. Easy. Well,
feasible.

Now that one miracle has occurred, let me try for 2 more...

A:
Anyone know why the .igc file from my Ilec SN-10 won't validate?

B:
Now... if anyone knows a link to cambridge software that runs on
windoze, this process will be even faster! I certainly can't find
anything at the Cambridge web site...

Thanks for making the possible!

dan johnson