Hi Folks, This weekend there were two fairly active state QSO parties: Oklahoma and Virginia. I made over 80 QSOs with OK stations, but less than a dozen with VA. Why? VA required a serial number, I
Jim its a qso party - they have there own rules that make them unique - like the recent suggestion to change the ARRL dx contest - everyone(contest) has its idiosyncrases - by change to remove serial
Same here. Zero VA qsos while I searched for OK and ND (even though the VA stations were mostly loud all weekend). While I don't especially like serial number exchanges (particularly when the "county
I've had a few occasions, usually in the Pa QSO Party, when I've made contacts with stations in another contest. When the exchange with the "other" contest was a SN, I simply gave the same SN as my P
When in Rome, do as we ugly Americans do - try to bully our own values onto the local populace. I personally like contests where the receiving operator has to think, rather than being a robot receivi
N1mm Logger handles this, with one problem. What it does is list the last 10 contest logs you opened, in the order they were opened, on its Files menu. It only takes about 2 seconds max to switch amo
As a wild guess, I'd say you don't like serial numbers in general? Looking at what is in the logs, PAQSO gets a lot of casual activity. I usually have a dozen or more Ops myself who ask what the exch
Pete wrote.."The problem? It lists all QSO parties simply as "QSO Party", so if you want to multi-task among them, you get confused." Here is an N1MM Logger work-around that I've used successfully. I
Jim, To me the answer is: it depends. Serial numbers are fine, but challenging if you play in multiple contests both with and without them. Tougher yet, if you mix DX and Domestic contests in the bre
I remember seeing something in the NY QSO Party comments about serial numbers. Note that two of the most popular state QSO parties (CA and PA) both use serial numbers in the exchange. When drafting t
If there are more than one QSO Parties listed on that File Menu, don't use that short cut method because, as you said, you are opening the log "blind". Instead, use the File > Open Log selection. The
I would STRONGLY suggest that the CA and PA QSO Parties are the most popular because those states have large ham populations and because those QSO Parties have long histories of activity. They happen
When drafting the preliminary NYQP rules, we originally thought that a serial number exchange would be good, but after many comments to us from QSO party participants, we came up with this for the NY
Author: "Paul J. Piercey" <p.piercey@nl.rogers.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 13:10:38 -0800
One issue I've found with using the "Last Opened" list is that the F Key macros don't get imported by this method of changing contests. They remain whatever the last "properly" loaded contest used. Y