[Trlog] /MM stations?

Tree tree at kkn.net
Tue Dec 16 10:53:03 EST 2003


> In a panic I changed the callsign to N2NL/MM2 which caused TR to accept R2, 
> but log it as RI.  I hadn't worked a Rhode Island so this also ended up as 
> my first RI station.  After correcting both the callsign and R2 after the 
> contest I ran POST, ignoring the complaint about R2 during the multiplier 
> check.  What I didn't realize until later is that we were never credited 
> with RI.  So I found the first CW contact with RI, edited in the new mult, 
> and reran the multiplier check in POST.  It complained that RI had already 
> been worked.  Apparently R2 is interpreted as RI.
> 
> So if you worked your first RI after working N2NL/MM then you may not be 
> credited for the RI multiplier in your claimed score.  If you see this come 
> up in your multiplier check after editing in R2 then don't correct the 
> duplicate RI mult.

Please notice that multipliers are not marked in your Cabrillo log, the one
you send to the contest sponsor.  Therefore, you can't lose the multiplier
by not having TR flag it.

Tree


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