[SCCC] Ohio QSO Party

[Dennis Younker NE6I]

Bob,

This question came up on the CQ-CONTEST reflector, and there is an easier 
way to do all three contests on the same weekend. Using N1MM software, 
simply open different logs in the same database, using one log per contest. 
As you work stations during the weekend, open the appropriate log, enter the 
QSO and press <enter>. Voila! I didn't try it but that's how it was 
described. Seems like it should work fine.

By the way, I heard some Europeans calling CQ TEST as well. I think they 
were in the YO Contest. So you could have done Four contests this weekend, 
hi!

73, Dennis

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <RGrubic at aol.com>
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Sent: Sunday, August 28, 2011 4:47 PM
Subject: [SCCC] Ohio QSO Party


>
> Name of  Contest: Ohio QSO Party
> Call:  NC6Q
> Operator(s):  NC6Q
> Station:NC6Q
> Class: Low  Power
> QTH:  NC6Q
> Category: CW  only
> Summary
> Band     QSOs            Counties
> -------------------------------------------- 
> 80
> 40
> 20
> 15            2                    2
> 10
> -------------------------------------------- 
> 2                    2      Totals
> Total Score:  8
> Ah-ha Moments:   1
> Club: Southern  California Contest Club
> Comments: The  propagation gods did not look down favorable on my indoor
> attic dipole this  time. As I sat and tuned and listened to Kansas QSO 
> Party
> (CQ KQP...) and Hawaii  QSO Party (CQ HQP...) hams call CQ with their
> propagation coming in and out, but  could NOT hear Ohio QSO Party hams 
> calling, it
> dawned on me: why not work  all three QSO Parties at the same time? Make a
> better day of it. But how to log?  Did the N1MM logger hold the answer?
> Everyone seems to use it. (I was using the  N3FJP software. And they 
> didn't even
> offer the Kansas QSP or Hawaii QSP  logging.)
> So with rear  still in seat, headphones on, and hand spinning dial, I
> downloaded N1MM  logger, and its documentation, and read most of it, and
> installed it, and  played around with it (still hearing no OQP come my 
> way). I even
> did some  experimenting with the county list of one of the STATE QSPs. The
> program  logger will not allow you to enter a QSO with the "wrong" county
> abbreviation,  BUT if you change the list by adding the counties of all 
> the
> other QSPs you'd  like to work, presto! You can enter them all into one 
> log.
> Just use sequential  numbering the whole day and your QSOs will match the
> other QSOs in their  log. I'd have to calculate my score manually, but 
> I'll work
> on just how to do  that later. Or not--wait to hear back from the states
> what my score came out to  be.
> Then (after  googling more on all this and still listening for Ohio to 
> come
> in) on  someone's website I read the suggestion to simply send each state
> your entire  log that you have  (ahem) "amassed" and they will sort out 
> their
> appropriate QSOs in the process. You could beforehand edit the header of
> each  one to match the state you're sending it to.
> So next year,  I hope to work all three QSO parties on the same day and 
> see
> what happens.  And maybe even look for other "multiple" QSO Party weekends
> and try it  out--practice run or real thing if it works out well.
> Does anyone  see any flaws in this still evolving ideal? I'd appreciate 
> the
> input.
> I pulled the  plug early and couldn't decide if I had had a good time or
> not. Well, I'm now  finally getting into the N1MM logger. What a spiffy
> program.
>
> 73,
> Bob,  NC6Q
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