At 11:22 AM 4/5/03 +0300, Juha Rantanen wrote:
>I would like to run ES-Open Championship with my favorite logging software
>NA but there is a small hick up doing so. As it says in the rules the
>contest last for 4 hours and I'm allowed to run every station once on both
>bands on every period. That is 8 times all together. Is it possible to
>empty the dupe sheet after every hour like TR allowes one to do or do I
>need 4 logging windows one for each period? If I need 4 NA's open is it
>possible to have them all setup so that I can use LPT port keying with
>them. Meaning I don't need to do any configuring between the periods?
I find the description of TR allowing the dupe sheet to be emptied every
hour very curious. This would be relatively simply to add to NA, but the
bigger question is what happens when you re-load the log? Is there some
sort of marker in the file which causes the dupe sheet to empty as the file
is re-loaded? If not, then the repeat QSOs between periods will be marked
as dupes when the file is reloaded.
If I understand your description of the rules, it sounds like the contest
is broken into four one-hour segments. The only way to do this with NA is
to create four log files, one for each hour. Scoring for multipliers will
have to be done by hand. Electronic log submittal could be done by piecing
together the four Cabrillo files.
Another suggestion (since I assume it will be a relatively small log with
only four hours) would be to add "/1" to every QSO the first hour, "/2" the
second hour, etc. In this way you could have one single log file with
multipliers and scoring which should be correct. After the contest, take
the Cabrillo or .PRN file (whichever you're going to submit) and manually
edit the file to remove the "/#" identifiers.
While not elegant solutions, this should help you operate the
contest. Such a rule (allowing repeat QSOs) is not very common, and is
generally only used to increase activity in contests with low
participation. Niche rules like this are not high on my list of NA projects.
73,
Dave/K8CC
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