[Trlog] US Counties dom file

[Jim Smith]

I put together a dom file for this.  Sent it to the reflector but, 
because of its size (45K - 5K too big) it's awaiting moderator approval 
for posting.  Here's the preamble.  If the dom file doesn't get posted 
in time and you want the dom file let me know and I'll send it to you.

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Apologies up front to all those not interested in this for it's length. 
I don't have a website to put this kind of stuff on.  As the contest 
starts in 15 hours I feel it's important to get it out now.  I guess all 
the Digest readers are going to hate me.  Sorry, guys.

OK, I found a list of all counties in each state at the US Counties QSO 
party site http://www.stpaulisland.net/countycontest.html   I dumped it 
into Excel, did some manipulation and produced a dom file which I call 
Counties.dom.  It's brutally simple and if you don't enter the 
county/state combination exactly right it won't be accepted.  e.g. 
Jackson County Florida is JACFl.  How are you going to know what the 
right combination is?  Beats me.  The only possibilities I can think of 
are to either print the list (3077 counties) or display it on a 2nd 
monitor (which is what I intend to do).

With this giant dom file in use TR has about 20K of memory left on my 
computer.

There are still problems which I'm too tired to try to resolve.


If you work a non-US and enter DX in the exchange as you are supposed to 
it won't be accepted.  Dx = DX could be added to the dom file but then 
the first one would be considered a mult.  Not really an issue as you're 
going to have to massage the log anyway to get the scoring right so you 
probably should add it..

I haven't figured out which contest to base this on or what should be in 
logcfg.dat.  Sure hope someone else will and post it.

TR won't score the QSO points correctly.  1 for fixed, 15 for mobile and 
5 for DX (that's me - you get 5 points for working me compared to 1 for 
your next door neighbour).  I intend to deal with this by dumping the 
log into Excel and telling it to figure out how many points to allocate 
to each Q.
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Jim Smith wrote:

> I was hoping to enter the US Counties test this weekend to do more 
> contest and logging training but can't get TR to accept the required 
> State and County in the exchange.  When setting up TR I selected 
> County Hunter as the contest.  When I tried a sample Q with Pike In as 
> the exchange, TR logged the Q but didn't log the County or State.  In 
> Pike didn't work either.
>
>
> I then added EXCHANGE RECEIVED = RST QTH to the end of logcfg.dat.  
> That didn't work either.
>
> Unless someone can bail me out here by telling me how to make TR work 
> for this contest I'm going to have to tell my trainees to stay home. 
> Well, I could use WriteLog but I'm trying to teach TRLog.
>
> I foresee the same problem in the upcoming Great Lakes QSO Party.
>
> Ideas anybody?
>
> TIA for your help es 73 de Jim Smith    VE7FO
>
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