[SD-User] RAEM Contest.

[brian coyne]

      From: brian coyne <g4odv at yahoo.co.uk>
 To: Paul O'Kane <pokane at ei5di.com> 
 Sent: Thursday, 1 January 2015, 13:29
 Subject: Re: [SD-User] RAEM Contest.
   

>>A way round this problem would be for the RAEM sponsors to
>>change the coordinates to the format where the North/South
>>letter comes before the value (for example N57O85).EI5DI

In my innocence (ignorance) I thought that only the last 6 characters could be regarded for scoring as that number would always be constant. However I do think that  your suggestion of placing the letter  of the first co-ordinate at the front would be an ideal solution which would prevent a lot of 'busted' contacts.
Many thanks, I will contact RAEM Organisers, no harm in trying!
Brian  C4z / 5B4AIZ..

 

     From: Paul O'Kane <pokane at ei5di.com>
 To: sd-user at contesting.com 
 Sent: Thursday, 1 January 2015, 11:37
 Subject: Re: [SD-User] RAEM Contest.
   
On 01/01/2015 09:16, brian coyne wrote:
> What I would like to know is whether it is necessary to have that 'enter' after the s/n. or could the log checking not cope with that?

Something has to be entered to separate the Serial (numeric)
and the coordinates (also starting with a numeric value), as
otherwise there's no certain way of knowing when the serial
ends. For example 106 57N85O (that's the letter "O", not zero
"0").  Without a field separator of some kind the serial could
be 1065.

Some other contests with this issue use "/", while sending the
exchange, as a separator.  In summary, something is needed
to separate the exchange elements, and Enter (one keystroke)
is as good as any.

A way round this problem would be for the RAEM sponsors to
change the coordinates to the format where the North/South
letter comes before the value (for example N57O85).

Then I could update SD to accept the Serial and Coordinates
as a single field - and separate them. That's what SD already
does for RSGB contests - Serials and District Codes may be
logged as a single field, with no separator.



73,
Paul EI5DI



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