[CQ-Contest] CQWW impt notice: optional modification to cabrillo format

[kr2q at optimum.net]

Hi...

I just received an inquiry (as shown below) and I thought it was worth posting here too.

"We were M/S and find that we worked some non-mults with the mult station.  What should we
do?"

New this year for CQWW, you can now include a contact row in your cabrillo file that WILL NOT
COUNT.  This means the log checking will ignore this QSO for you, but will NOT ignore it for the
"other guy."  This way, YOUR log is clean AND the other guy does not get dinged.

How?

Edit your cabrillo output as follows:

For ONLY the row (or rows) you want to be ignored, insert an "X" (no quotes" in front of the
"QSO" portion of the row (no spaces).

So a row that originally look like this:
QSO:  7011 CW 2009-11-28 0000 KT3Y   599 5      YU1LA         599 15     1

Should be modified to look like this:
XQSO:  7011 CW 2009-11-28 0000 KT3Y   599 5      YU1LA         599 15     0

For M/S, also note that you should change the "Transmitter ID" (last column) from "1" to "0"

For full details (video) of the entire CQWW 2011 update, go to: 

http://www.pvrc.org/webinar/cqww_2011.wmv

And THANKS again to the PVRC for hosting this.

de Doug KR2Q
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