I think this one needs some discussion because even I am also confused by the
rules (OK, getting older and not hard to confuse me).
When I work an non-NA DX station I leave the QTH field blank which I believe is
appropriate. This one is easy.
The problem for me occurs when working non-USA/VE stations in NA. The rules are
as Shelby says, Name + Country. What is acceptable with this? I don't know.
Let's take an example of a Mexican station sending MEXICO or XE. WriteLog
doesn't accept MEXICO as a QTH. It will take MEXI and it will also take XE. So
if a station sends MEXICO and we input MEXI, is that good enough?
This is what I have done in the past and whether or not it is acceptable, I
don't care because to me the rule on this is ambiguous. Regardless of what a
non-USA/VE NA station sends, I input the prefix for that country in the QTH
field. If I work Dean 8P2K I will input 8P as the QTH regardless of what he
sends as his QTH.
Maybe some of you that operate the CW and SSB portions of this contest can clear
the air on this but to me it's plain stupid. The rules for inputting Non-USA/VE
stations should be the same as non-NA stations and send only the name. We
already know what the QTH is!
.02 worth...
73, Don AA5AU
-----Original Message-----
From: rtty-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:rtty-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf
Of Shelby Summerville
Sent: Monday, July 18, 2005 11:54 AM
To: RTTY Mailing List
Subject: Re: [RTTY] Logging NAQP DX stations
Rick Mintz asked: "In NAQP RTTY, what is entered in the QTH field when working a
DX station? I used "DX", is that correct?"
>From WA7BNM: "Re: logging of DX stations in NAQP.
The exchange logging requirements for NAQP are:
1) QSO with W/VE stations: name + state or province
2) QSO with North American station that is not W/VE: name + country
(abbreviated)
3) QSO with station outside of North America: name (optionally, "DX" may be
entered as the country, but a blank is also acceptable)"
WriteLog, unless I don't have it configured correctly, did not indicate the
country abbreviation for "NA stations that are not W/VE", nor does it
automatically indicate HI, when/if working Hawaiian stations?
C'Ya, Shelby - K4WW
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