Hi..
The change would take 5 mins to do using the TE program in NA....
Jeff
--- John Laney <k4bai@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> We should keep in mind that changing to counting counties as mults
> also
> for GA stations will mean that all software modules will have to be
> changed also. I don't know what changes might required, if any, to
> the
> WT4I logchecking software. Jeff or Mike, could you advise us in that
> regard.
>
> Georgia QSO Parties were initiated in about 1960 and have never (to
> the
> best of my recollection) allowed GA counties as mults for other GA
> stations. The reasoning is that so many counties that do allow that
> end
> up being pretty inward looking contests and the out-of-state guys are
> often left out with in-state guys working each other and going QRT
> with
> the out-of-state guys never getting a chance to work the rare
> counties.
> Many very successful State QSO Parties do not allow county mults for
> in
> state stations, but some do. If someone will change the contest
> modules
> for NA, TR, and Writelog and make them available well before April, I
> will have no major problem with the change. If I can't use NA, it
> will
> take a lot of enjoyment out of the contest. (Of course, without a
> driver this year, I didn't use a computer program in the car anyway,
> but, ideally, I'd like to have a driver and use NA like Dick, K2UFT,
> and
> I did in 1999. I certainly want one at home. If we don't have the
> contest modules, most of the logs will be on paper and will be hard
> to
> score and check.
>
> The change would also obsolete any GQP in state records we may have
> kept, but I don't think anyone kept up with records anyway.
>
> 73,
>
> John, K4BAI.
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