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Subject: [NA-User] HI in Sprint
From: k5iid@ntelos.net (Tom Horton)
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 03:17:01 +0000
Dave,
  Thanks! I had pretty much decided to do just that.
73, Tom K5IID





At 23:12 09/17/02 -0400, David A. Pruett wrote:
>At 02:35 AM 9/18/02 +0000, Tom Horton wrote:
>>I noticed that NA counted Hawaii as a mult. It is not a multiplier in 
>>Sprint , is it?
>
>You had me puzzled about this too.  What is happening is that "HI" (the 
>abbreviation for Hawaii) is actually being scored as the Dominican Republic.
>
>I'm not sure how to handle this.  If you worked HI8LC in the contest, he 
>would give "HI" as his location info, just like a KH6.  If you want to 
>score correctly put "DX" as the location for the KH6, but then the Sprint 
>logcheckers might bust the QSO.  If it were me, I'd leave it as "HI" - the 
>logs are rescored anyways so your claimed score does not matter.
>
>K8CC
>
>

Tom Horton      
K5IID in West "BY GAWD" Virginia
" E " sorter for the W5 Bureau  


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