[CQ-Contest] What to log?

[MikeR]

Absolutely.
Mike NF4L
VR2BrettGraham wrote:
> AA4LR replied to W1VE-VE1RM:
> 
> 
>>>Therefore, these are all valid callsigns, and the contest software
>>>is smart
>>>enough to know what country the station is actually in.
>>
>>So here's a dumb question -- how does the software know? If the
>>portable designation can come before or after the callsign -- how can
>>we tell which is which?
>>
>>If the (now SK) King of Jordan were to come to connecticut and sign
>>JY1/W1 or W1/JY1 -- how could we tell which is which, programmatically?
>>
>>This is a puzzle that has perplexed me for years.
> 
> 
> I'm not a coder, nor do I play one on TV, but when I wrote the
> routine for my homebrew dBASE log so I could figure out
> what countries I worked where, I looked for a "/" in the call &
> then how many characters were on either side.
> 
> The case where fore=aft only seemed resolvable by user
> intervention.
> 
> JY1/W1 & W1/JY1 are cases where fore>aft & fore<aft may
> not mean what they appear to mean.
> 
> Things get messier when there is more than one "/" in the
> call, or cases like FR/G or anycall/M (Glorioso or England,
> anycall/mobile or anycall-portable-England?).
> 
> Still don't know what my country counts are.  ;^)
> 
> 73, VR2BrettGraham
> 
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