[CQ-Contest] multi-contesting

[Julius Fazekas]

This is a topic of interest here as well... One needs to be pretty agile to swap contests, even more so if the exchanges vary.

This is the one major challenge for the MARAC/7QP/NEQP/InQP/ARI weekend.

Think there should be a special award, like a bag o' nuts, for those silly enough to play seriously in that many at once ;o)

73,
Julius

Julius Fazekas
N2WN

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

Tennessee QSO Party
http://www.tnqp.org/

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


--- On Sun, 3/22/09, David Levine <david at levinecentral.com> wrote:

> From: David Levine <david at levinecentral.com>
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] multi-contesting
> To: "'cq contest'" <CQ-Contest at CONTESTING.COM>
> Date: Sunday, March 22, 2009, 7:25 AM
> I was going to start a thread on this
> topic as well though I was going to
> start in the N1MM group. This weekend there are 5 contests
> I participated
> in. Maybe not "normal" for a diehard contester, but I'm
> sure I'm not the
> only one. The contests are the BARTG RTTY contest (my main
> contest this
> weekend), the Russian DX contest and the OK, ND and VA QSO
> Parties. So I did
> some searching about working multiple contests and the only
> relevant thing I
> found was related to what Dick wrote below about the
> section file for
> multiple QSO parties. 
> 
> So what I was going to ask is if there's some preferred
> method or trick I
> haven't found for working all these multiple contests in a
> weekend besides
> the Open Log each time (I'm using N1MM) that I tune along
> the band and find
> someone calling CQ for a contest I don't have open?
> 
> My computer is possible a bit underpowered and I needed to
> remove all the
> spots or opening up a new log would take close to a minute
> to re-do all the
> spots. There were a lot of spots, but not a lot of log
> entries for any of
> the contests but the BARTG one. I think this weekend was a
> bit more
> difficult because there were so many that were intermixed.
> If they weren't,
> then I'd be able to, as an example do CW for one, SSB for
> one and RTTY for a
> third. But this weekend, there were 4 concurrent contests
> running at the
> same time for CW and SSB and doing S&P I would never
> know which I would tune
> up. 
> 
> So hopefully there won't be any RTFM responses. Is there a
> better way to
> handle multiple contests like the above? Does writelog
> handle it better then
> N1MM? 
> 
> 73,
> K2DSL - David
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com
> [mailto:cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com]
> On Behalf Of Dick Frey - K4XU
> Sent: Sunday, March 22, 2009 1:19 AM
> To: cq contest
> Subject: [CQ-Contest] multi-contesting
> 
> I tried to play in all three state QP's but was frustrated
> by VA's 
> requirement for a SN. I got N1MM to accept all the
> different county 
> exchanges by modifying the QSOParty.sec file. But when I
> worked a VA 
> station it would not take the number so I just copied the
> county and 
> will not turn in the VA log. Most were happy to get my OR
> mult.
> 
> While I agree that the RST=599 part of the exchange is
> completely 
> superfluous, unless all the concurrent weekend parties
> replace it with a 
> serial number, you're odd man out, Virginia.
> 
> The Oregon party, now 7QP, had SN in the exchange until the
> NEQP 
> started. We decided to change so NEQP, IN and 7QP would all
> use RST. The 
> results have proved beneficial to all.
> 
> Dick
> 
> 
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