On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 08:27:08PM -0500, Paul Kirley wrote:
> Rule 5.1.3 for this weekend's ARRL 10-meter contest specifies "Eight points
> for CW QSOs with US Novice or Technician Plus stations signing /N or /T (28.1
> to 28.3 MHz only)."
>
> While TRLog's DAT file and claimed score calculations show 8 points per /N
> and /T QSO, the Cabrillo file generated by POST shows the default 28000
> frequency for every QSO. This downgrades the /N and /T QSOs to 4-pointers in
> the final scoring.
>
> For example, last year
> QSO: 28000 CW 2004-12-11 1407 W8TM 599 Oh KA5PQD/N 599 Tx
> got me 4 QSO points (my final CW-only score was 4 times QSOs times mults,
> with final QSO and mult counts as claimed).
>
> An obvious workaround is manual editing of the frequency in the Cabrillo file
> generated by POST. I don't know if there are alternative approaches.
>
> I thought that others might appreciate a warning about this quirk.
I don't believe the frequency is the issue.
Tree
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