[CQ-Contest] In-state stations in QSO Parties...

[Julius Fazekas]

In N1MM (and probably other programs), if a rover sends N2WN/GRA and you've worked N2WN already, say in AND, typing N2WN into the logging window shows a "dupe", but typing the county in will show that GRA is non-dupe and/or new county. No need to type N2WN/GRA in the entry window, which also eliminates the need to get rid of /m or /4 or /cty in the ADIF later.

Count me in the group that does use "/cty", if only as for clarification. Too many time N2WN GRA turns into N2WNGRA, which slows things down in confusion.

Wish CQ and others would stop with the "N2WN/4", something I virtually never send...

Regardless what you send, thanks to all the folks who hit the road to keep the QSO parties hopping!

73,
Julius

Julius Fazekas
N2WN

Tennessee Contest Group
http://www.k4ro.net/tcg/index.html
http://groups.google.com/group/tcg1?hl=en

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

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--- On Thu, 4/29/10, aldewey at aol.com <aldewey at aol.com> wrote:

> From: aldewey at aol.com <aldewey at aol.com>
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] In-state stations in QSO Parties...
> To: cq-contest at contesting.com
> Date: Thursday, April 29, 2010, 6:50 AM
> 
> 
> I might be missing something here but I certainly don't see
> anything wrong with rovers simply signing something like
> K0AD/DAK when they are roving.  I have been doing that
> for years in MNQP.  The logging software I use
> (Writelog) recognizes it as a unique station and does not
> list it as a dupe.
> 
> When I hear a station calling CQ W4XYZ/CTY it is clear to
> me that they are in the state having the QSO party and what
> county they are in.
> 
> When MNQP first started, we had two character county
> designaters.  We did get some comments that signing
> something like K0AD/DL could give the impression you are
> DX.  But with 3 character designators, I think that
> problem goes away.
> 
> 73,
> 
> AL, K0AD
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Chudek - K0RC <k0rc at citlink.net>
> To: Jimk8mr at aol.com;
> mike at n0hi.net; cq-contest at contesting.com
> Sent: Tue, Apr 27, 2010 10:45 pm
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] In-state stations in QSO
> Parties...
> 
> 
> Jim,
> "Better to sign W3WW/4 or W3WW/FL."
> This doesn't make any sense to me.
> W3WW/4 could be in any of the eight 4-land states. It
> doesn't tell me he's 
> n Florida.
> W3WW/FL tells me he's a DX station in a French Department
> somewhere or maybe 
> e's in Florida can't tell for sure.
> W3WW/?? Slash anything, causes callsign synchronization
> issues when 
> ploading to eQSL or LoTW.
> W3WW BRE tells me he is a station in Brevard county and YES
> I want to know 
> hat he hasn't moved to another county. As soon as I type
> his callsign, my 
> ontest software shows me all the contacts I have made with
> that station, no 
> atter which band, mode, or county.
> 73 de Bob - KØRC in MN
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> rom: <Jimk8mr at aol.com>
> o: <mike at n0hi.net>;
> <cq-contest at contesting.com>
> ent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 8:34 PM
> ubject: Re: [CQ-Contest] In-state stations in QSO
> Parties...
> 
> I would suggest that in state stations should not
> sign  /CTY if they  are
>  not mobile or otherwise changing counties. Every time I
> hear that from a
>  station that I do not think is a mobile, I have to check
> to see if that 
>  /CTY is
>  the same as when I worked him before.
> 
>  Better to sign W3WW/4 or W3WW/FL.
> 
>  73  -  Jim  K8MR
> 
> 
> 
>  In a message dated 4/27/2010 7:36:56 P.M. Eastern Daylight
> Time,
>  mike at n0hi.net
> writes:
> 
>  FL QP is  different in that an out of state station
> can actually run FL
>  stations to  rate.  I was doing this on Sunday
> when NQ4I called me, gave 
>  me
>  5nn GA,  I gave him 5nn MA, and we both probably
> realized around the same
>  time,  "oops...this one don't count!"  Then Rick
> called me on phone a  few
>  minutes later just to make sure.
> 
>  The "CQ FQP" or "CQ FL" is a  fine line...I thought
> stations signing with
>  their county in the CQ made  things easier.  The
> stations signing /county
>  added some confusion the  first few times; maybe just
> "CQ FQP NA4XYZ BRE"
>  makes more sense.
> 
>  In  any case, it was fun.
> 
>  -- 
>  Mike DeChristopher,  N0HI
>  http://www.n0hi.net
> 
> 
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