Scott,
Thanks for sharing your email string with Bruce,WA7BNM. After reading his
comments, it is obvious that my reading of the rules is all wrong!
Apologies to all. The most relevant part of Bruce's message is:
"Missing or ambiguous QTHs for QSOs with North American stations will result
in the loss of the QSO. The test of a QTH designation is whether you can
determine the state/province/country from only the QTH
info without knowledge of the corresponding call sign. The exception to
this criteria is when the standard DXCC country abbreviation is the same as
a postal code (e.g. CO=Colorado and CO=Cuba, HI=Hawaii and HI=Honduras,
etc.)."
>From this is it obvious that all my previous comments are without merit and
should be disregarded. I just tried another trial run of a few calls DX NA
calls, but this time created a Cabrillo file. Much to my surprise, and
dismay, the Country info is NOT included in the Cabrillo file! Since the
NAQP contest robot is only looking at QTH info to determine the
state/province/country the current WL NAQP contest module is defective in
its logic. A call such as 8P5A, a valid NA country, cannot possibly be
entered into the QTH field because of the leading number. Hopefully, the
author of this module has been following these strings and will post a
corrected version soon. The QTH field must be modified to accept alpha
numeric strings that are longer than two positions. It would be nice if
this could be done before next Sat. to avoid everyone having to go into
their Cabrillo logs and hand edit a bunch of QTH field errors!
Again thanks for the heads up!
Gary AL9A
----- Original Message -----
From: "K7ZO (Scott Tuthill)" <k7zo@cableone.net>
To: "Gary Senesac AL9A" <al9a@pobox.mtaonline.net>
Sent: August 14, 2006 6:58 PM
Subject: More info on QTH field
> Gary -- traded messages with WA7BNM on the subject. He is the NAQP SSB
> manager. Here is our string.
>
> Scott
> ========
> Ok -- typical somewhat obtuse answer from contest rules makers. I also
> understand why -- so that is ok.
>
> If you really do use the QTH field to determine the country, and not infer
> it from the callsign, I better make sure the QTH field is unambiguous. And
> yes, I realize that is my responsibility, not the software's.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Scott
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bruce Horn" <bhorn@hornucopia.com>
> To: <k7zo@cableone.net>
> Sent: Monday, August 14, 2006 8:32 PM
> Subject: Re: QTH Field in Cabrillo File
>
>
>> Hi Scott,
>>
>> At 06:49 PM 8/14/2006, you wrote:
>>>Bruce - been playing with Writelog before this weekend's NAQP SSB. One
>>>thing I noticed it that it does not log a number in the QTH field and
>>>thus
>>>does not have any numbers in the QTH field of the Cabrillo file. So, in
>>>other words VP5Z and VP9Z will both have a QTH field in the Cabrillo file
>>>of "VP". Is this an issue the way the score checking is done? Should I
>>>hand edit the Cabrillo to add the full DX Prefix?
>>
>> As I wrote K4WW this morning about this subject (I guess it's a topic on
>> the WriteLog reflector), although we all depend on the software we use to
>> log contests, ultimately it's the responsibility of the contester to
>> insure that their submitted log contains the necessary information, even
>> if their software doesn't. Cabrillo files are easy to edit with a text
>> editor (e.g. Notepad) before submission to correct these types of
>> mistakes. Missing or ambiguous QTHs for QSOs with North American stations
>> will result in the loss of the QSO. The test of a QTH designation is
>> whether you can determine the state/province/country from only the QTH
>> info without knowledge of the corresponding call sign. The exception to
>> this criteria is when the standard DXCC country abbreviation is the same
>> as a postal code (e.g. CO=Colorado and CO=Cuba, HI=Hawaii and
>> HI=Honduras,
>> etc.).
>>
>> 73 de Bruce, WA7BNM (bhorn@hornucopia.com)
>>
>>
>
>
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