[RTTY] CQWW exchange

Bill, W6WRT dezrat1242 at yahoo.com
Mon Sep 29 18:57:56 EDT 2008


Agreed. In the macro, put the state first, but in the Cabrillo file,
put the zone first. 

And if you can still remember that by this time next year, I hereby
award you an extra 500 bonus points. :-)

73, Bill W6WRT


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On Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:33:17 -0500, "Robert Chudek - K0RC"
<k0rc at pclink.com> wrote:

>
>There was a discussion regarding whether the exchange should be [State/Prov] 
>+ [CQ Zone] or the reverse. I didn't voice my opinion about this prior to 
>the contest, but I like to have the CQ Zone sent last. Here's my reasoning 
>about that... When I RX a station, my logging software automatically 
>populates the Zone field. The missing information is the State/Prov. I want 
>to see that information before Zone so I have a longer time to click (or 
>enter) it into the logger. About 98% of the time the Zone is guessed 
>correctly by the program and I don't have to do anything but visually verify 
>it's correct.


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