On Monday, 01 May 2000, Jim Reisert wrote:
> A summary of the responses posted back to the reflector would have been
> helpful.
Perhaps you're correct Jim. Good idea. Here tis....
> It is ok to log it the way that you did. The rules state that mobiles on a
> county line count for 2 QSO's and 2 mults. I had a similar problem until I
> was told about this half way into the contest!!! I had to redo my log last
> nite during the break....
> I believe this has come up before, but my memory is not
> that swift. My question has to do with logging rovers. First,
> let me describe how I log them.
> I'll use the Michigan QSO Party as an example. Let's say I log
> K8CC the first time. Not knowing for sure that he is roving, I
> simply log him as K8CC, and log MACK as the county.
> Later, I run into him again, and notice he's giving EMME as the
> county. I need EMME, so I type K8CC/EMME in the call field,
> and type EMME as the county. But when I hit enter, NA reports that I
> need to enter a valid call. I change the call to K8CC/EMM, and
> NA accepts it. No Problem.
> Next I run into K8XXX in MONR. Somehow forgetting that NA
> doesn't seem to accept the <callsign/xxxx> scheme, I log him as
> K8XXX/MONR. I hit enter, and NA takes it! Hmmm.
> Why does NA take the 4 letter extension with some calls, and
> with others it only likes 3 letters after the "/"? I noticed during the
> contest that with rovers with 1 by 3 calls, NA accepted the 4 letter
> abbreviations after the "/", while 1 by 2 calls only took 3 letters.
> This wasn't any big deal until I worked K8CC in OSCE. There were
> 2 counties that could be abbreviated OSC, so I ended up typing something
> cryptic like K8CC/OSC1, and it accepted that, I assume because it was a
> number, not a letter? Of course in the qth field, it showed OSCE for the
> county.
> I was using ver. 10.47, BTW, Had "qth match for dupe" enabled in the
> options panel (but that shouldn't have had any effect on the call field,
> right?).
> I have noticed this anomaly several times in the past few years
> using different versions.
>
> Let me emphasize that this is not a big problem for me, but I was just
> curious as to why it was occuring, and more importantly, if there
> was something I was doing wrong, or could do differently. Ideally,
> I like to look at the call with the 4 letter county designation after the
> slant. A quick glance at the auto-partial check window shows all the
> counties that that call was worked in, without resorting to the "qso's
> with callsign" SH-F9 screen. Not to mention that the 4 letter county
> designation pretty much removes the chance of running into the
> aforementioned "Osceola, Oscola" predicament.
> And allow me to apologize if this has been discussed before. Or, if
> there is something in the docs that covers it, or perhaps a tech note, I
> would appreciate a shove in the right direction.
>
> By the way, MIQP was a blast. Thanks to K8CC and the other rovers
> for a great effort. See you all in the Florida and Ontario qso parties
> this weekend.
> JUST WAS CHECKING THE RULES YOU GET THE POINTS AS IF YOU WORKED THEM
> FOR 2 SEPARATE QSOS ONE EACH COUNTY..didnt mean to yell.
> but was surprised to see that on the current rules at their web site.
> According to the rules a mobile on county lines counts for 1 pt for each
> county..
> I use this method of loging the w4aa/M what I do
> is eg. W4AA/MTE 59 MTE 1
> W4AA/SAR 59 SAR 1
> This gives credit for 2 QSO pts and 2 Mults..
> I normally hand edit the summary sheet and log after the
> contest. Fortunately not many stations set
> up on county lines.
> Garie you CAN claim two QSO's and two points. It's even written as such in
> the rules.
> Make sure you select the option "QTHs Must Match For Dupe". You can log
> the mobiles as
> K4XXX/MTE and K4XXX/SAR ... you'll get credit for both QSO's and mults
> (if needed). QSO's on conty lines count for QSO and Multiplier (if
> needed) credit for each QSO.
73 //Garie *K8KFJ*
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