[SCCC] [WriteLog] CTY-2702 Country Files - 14 February 2017

[Glenn Rattmann]

Alan,

To your last phrase "...many folks missed this mult due to the 
mix-up." -- Don't worry, nobody 'missed' the mult, as long as 
they  force-logged it and left it in the log.
The contest sponsor(s) use the very latest country-list when they run 
the Cabrillo files through the scoring process.  You can be certain 
that WP2AA QSOs in all the logs
will show credit for USVI, and not USA.

Their process creates the final score, so the claimed score shown 
when you submit your Cabrillo file is unimportant (and it is never 
off by very much, anyway).
Those final corrected scores are then used to create the club 
aggregate scores, too.

As you know, the major loggers provide a way for the user to modify, 
in effect,  his local log scoring so the Cabrillo file will reflect 
these one-off occurences.  You might
feel better seeing your score go up a little, before you submit the 
Cab-file... but the 'real' score comes from the adjudicators, anyway.

As Hank would say:  "Contest exuberantly!" and don't worry too much 
about it. ;-)

73,
Glenn K6NA

At 12:16 PM 3/8/2017, you wrote:
>Yes, the old GARBAGE IN, GARBAGE OUT. Cannot be helped when the FCC 
>database does not reflect the actual station location.
>
>It seems KK9A holds several call signs all registered to his North 
>Carolina address including WP2AA as a club call.
>He placed a blurb on his WP2AA qrz.com page to the effect that all 
>QSO's made with that call were from the U.S.V.I. but the FCC 
>database reflects his N.C. address so of course that would indicate 
>a CONUS U.S. station on any database.
>
>This differs from a REAL KP2 station such as KP2XX who has an actual 
>U.S.V.I. mailing address in the FCC database.
>
>I was under the impression that you could only hold a KH6, KL7, KH2, 
>KH3, KP2, etc call IF you had a mailing address to reflect that 
>location. (That is why so many Filipinos and Japanese have PO Box 
>mailing address in Guam or Saipan so they can hold KH2 or KH0 
>calls.) I thought maybe that only applies if the call is a 2 by 1 
>but my log shows many actual KP2 calls are 2 by 2 unlike KG4 calls 
>when actual GITMO calls are 2 by 2 and KG4 2 by 3 calls are CONUS calls.
>
>I worked WP2AA on four bands. I noticed that when I typed the call 
>into the logger the first time it did not indicate a NEW MULT as it 
>should had. After I logged it, I noticed it was logged as United 
>States. Therefore, I edited it from K to KP2 each time I logged him.
>
>Too bad KK9A did not notify Jim AD1C before the contest that he 
>would be using WP2AA in the contest FROM USVI. I would think all 
>serious contesters know Jim is the KING of the contest CTY 
>databases. I suspect many folks missed this MULT due to the mix-up.
>
>K7ACZ
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jim Reisert AD1C [mailto:jjreisert at alum.mit.edu]
>Sent: Tuesday, March 7, 2017 12:19 PM
>To: Alan Zack
>Cc: WriteLog; SCCC; DX4WIN Reflector
>Subject: Re: [WriteLog] CTY-2702 Country Files - 14 February 2017
>
>On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 7:29 PM, Alan Zack K7ACZ wrote:
>
> > If so, I need to warn everyone who used WriteLog in the ARRL DX SSB
> > last weekend that the call WP2AA comes up as United States and NOT
> > U.S. Virgin Islands. I worked them on four bands and corrected my log
> > from United States to KP2 U.S. Virgin Islands after each contact.
> > After the contest I went back to the above mentioned WL_CTY.DAT file
> > and searched for WP2AA. It shows WP2AA as a USA entry WP2AA(5)[8].
>
>The FCC database has a stateside mailing address for WP2AA, so my 
>software that builds the country files assumed the call was USA.  A 
>country file release to fix this will be released Tuesday night, March
>7 local time (after 0z March 8).
>
>To fix WriteLog, change the country prefix of each WP2AA QSO from K to
>KP2 and it will rescore the QSOs.
>
>
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