[CQ-Contest] WriteLog for State QSO Parties?

[Dave Edmonds]

If county lines are permitted, there will be solo mobile ops that would
prefer running a county line instead of having to run one then find a spot
to run the adjacent county. Mobiles can find the county lines and run them
quickly and move on to the next line.

Texas requires two separate contacts to be made if you work a county line
station. Most QPs do the 2 in one contact.

I just remembered that CA uses serial numbers, which makes it a little more
complicated.

I would suggest adopt the Texas approach by requiring the stations to have
two separate contacts, which will result in two different serial numbers.
Of course contacts would be consecutive with the same op. This is the only
way to do it with qso numbers.

GL Dave WN4AFP


On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 11:56 AM Tim Childers K9CQ <k9cq at k9cq.com> wrote:

> In the Illinois QP there are two different designators for moving stations.
> A "mobile" can't work from a county line and are normally operators that
> try
> to cover as many counties in the contest as possible.  A "rover" is a
> station that works mostly on county lines and might cover 2 or more county
> lines. "Rovers" tend to have a portable type antenna setup and run for
> several hours in on one county line.  The "portable" stations stay on one
> line during the whole contest and are another category.  I believe it is a
> fair way to divide them up because your only competing against similar
> operations.
>
> Tim, K9CQ
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Edmonds
> Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2018 8:45 AM
> To: Jeff Stai
> Cc: k9yc at arrl. net ; cq-contest
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] WriteLog for State QSO Parties?
>
> I work just about every QSO party on the planet. I use N3FJP and it handle
> county lines for mobiles very well. I’ve heard many times that there aren’t
> mobiles inthe California QP. One reason is that counties are large. Another
> reason is that county line op isn’t allowed.
>
> I believe that by allowing county line contacts, mobile stations could run
> a few county lines in during the contest.
>
> I’d make sure that mobiles are competing against other mobiles too.
>
> Gl Jim
>
> Dace WN4AFP
> On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 8:47 AM Jeff Stai <wk6i.jeff at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I'm not sure that Writelog doesn't already support this proposed feature,
> > but they do several releases a year, and I can't imagine they wouldn't
> add
> > support for this change, if needed.
> >
> > 73 jeff wk6i
> >
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