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Re: [CQ-Contest] New Contest Country Files - 23 October 2005

To: "Tom McAlee" <tom@klient.com>, "Paul O'Kane" <pokane@ei5di.com>,<cq-contest@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] New Contest Country Files - 23 October 2005
From: Pete Smith <n4zr@contesting.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 10:29:32 -0400
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At 10:22 PM 10/24/2005, Tom McAlee wrote:
>EI5DI wrote:
>
>> You seem to be saying that, regardless of what zone a station gives or 
>> what we hear, we should log the zone the software indicates - assuming, of 
>> course, the software interprets callsigns/zones the way CQ expects.
>
>
>That is correct, sort of.  Log whatever you want for the zone; it doesn't 
>matter.  The program that does the scoring removes everything except the 
>band and callsign.  It figures out the zone on its own.  This is how K3EST 
>explained the process at a seminar last year.
>
>However, for your own records/scoring you'll probably want to know what 
>zones you've worked.  If you log a 16 as a 17 then don't work another 17, 
>you don't really have the zone 17 multiplier you think you have (thats what 
>Dave, K1TTT, was saying)
>
>Tom, NI1N


In other words, CQWW is just a callsign copying contest.  But we knew that, 
didn't we?

73, Pete N4ZR 

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