[CQ-Contest] FQP logs, the new robot and Cabrillo

[Julius Fazekas]

Bob,

This is also a problem using eQSL. 

It's interesting that LoTW has the option of posting by county, yet the ARRL doesn't have a county based award.

Yet, eQSL doesn't have the option and CQ accepts confirmations for USACA.

73,

Julius Fazekas
N2WN

Tennessee Contest Group
http://www.k4ro.net/tcg/index.html

Tennessee QSO Party: Sunday, 6 Sept 2009
http://www.tnqp.org/

Elecraft K2/100 #4455
Elecraft K3/100 #366


--- On Thu, 4/30/09, Robert Chudek - K0RC <k0rc at citlink.net> wrote:

> From: Robert Chudek - K0RC <k0rc at citlink.net>
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] FQP logs, the new robot and Cabrillo
> To: "Tom Haavisto" <kamham69 at gmail.com>, "David Levine" <david at levinecentral.com>
> Cc: fcg at kkn.net, K1to at aol.com, FCG-P at yahoogroups.com, cq-contest at contesting.com
> Date: Thursday, April 30, 2009, 11:04 AM
> Logging mobiles using the /CTY
> designator may appear to work fine during the 
> contest, but there are consequences of this logging
> technique "down the 
> road".
> 
> The major hurdle is when uploading your log to LoTW. A
> mobile operator may 
> visit 20 or 30 counties during a QSO Party. He would need
> 20 or 30 
> certificates to upload his log to the system. (Imagine if
> this was a MARAC 
> operator... he would need 3,077 certificates to manage and
> renew.) On the 
> other hand, if he chooses to upload his contacts as KØRC/M
> for example, he 
> only needs one certificate and can use the Station Location
> feature of tQSL 
> to identify the individual counties that were visited.
> 
> I use N1MM and it accepts either the /CTY or the /M method
> of logging and 
> still keeps the scoring accurate. The dupe feature also
> works. You only need 
> to put the county abbreviation into the correct logging
> field instead of 
> appending it to the callsign.
> 
> If you logged using the /CTY method, there is a software
> program that will 
> make the corrections to your log. The utility by AD1C will
> process QSO Party 
> logs and strip off the /CTY designators and replace them
> with the /M. In 
> addition, it uses the /CTY information to determine the
> proper ADIF tags for 
> state and county identity used when importing to other
> logging software.
> 
> Whether you use the /CTY or the /M method of logging, you
> will want to use 
> AD1C's program to automatically capture the location
> information before 
> importing your contest log. You will find Jim's program
> here: 
> http://software.ad1c.us/ADIF_County/index.htm
> 
> 73 de Bob - KØRC in MN
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Tom Haavisto" <kamham69 at gmail.com>
> To: "David Levine" <david at levinecentral.com>
> Cc: <fcg at kkn.net>;
> <K1to at aol.com>;
> <FCG-P at yahoogroups.com>;
> 
> <cq-contest at contesting.com>;
> <fqp at kkn.net>
> Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2009 9:16 AM
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] FQP logs, the new robot and
> Cabrillo
> 
> 
> > One things that works, and has become widely used, is
> to log as follows:
> > W1XX/CTY
> >
> > ie - put the county name at the end of the stations
> call.  This way,
> > dupes and scoring work correctly.  If you already
> worked the station,
> > you can work them a second time with the /county at
> the end of their
> > call.
> >
> > I don't do this for fixed stations, but once I realize
> they are a
> > mobile, rover, or for some reason are in a different
> county that I
> > have logged previously, the above works fine.
> >
> > Tom - VE3CX
> >
> >
> >
> >> Another suggestion for future consistency is to
> explicitly list on the 
> >> web
> >> site how mobile stations should send there
> exchange and what the contest
> >> logger expects. I think ARRL contests call them
> rovers and use /R as what
> >> should be logged. Maybe that is just how the ARRL
> does it. From what I 
> >> got
> >> as feedback here, /P and /M should also work. Some
> of the preferences 
> >> might
> >> be around how various logging programs handle
> mobiles in a QSO party. 
> >> N1MM
> >> as an example doesn't allow (though you can force
> but scoring is off), 
> >> AB1CD
> >> on its own in multiple counties. You can use
> AB1CD/P or AB1CD/M, etc. But
> >> maybe if there was some consistency it would be
> helpful. Also, it's not
> >> always obvious on the first exchange with a
> mobile/rover/portable station
> >> that they are indeed going to be setup in multiple
> counties unless the
> >> assumption is if they call CQ using AB1CD/xxxx
> that they are.
> >>
> >> 73,
> >> K2DSL - David
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