[Trlog] Texas QSO

[Jim Smith]

As Alan pointed out, in many contests there are just too many mults to 
fit on the screen.  e.g. WPX and many of the state QSO Parties where the 
mults are state counties.  

Here are some things I do.
1.  If possible, shorten the name of the mult.
e.g. In a number of the state QSO Parties, the TR .dom file lists the 
counties using the first 6 letters of the county name.  e.g. Lincol for 
Lincoln.  If you consult the rules for a number of the state QSO Parties 
you will find an approved list of county abbreviations.  Some use 3 
letters, some use 4.  So a state with a Lincoln county but not many 
counties would probably use Lin.  A state with a lot of counties would 
probably use Linc.  So, find the list of approved abbreviations for the 
state counties and modify the .dom file for that QSO Party so that it 
uses the approved abbreviations.  Shorter mult names means you get more 
of them on the screen.

As an example, if you look at Salmon.dom, the WaQP dom file, you will 
see a line
Cowlitz  = COW, COWL, COWLIT, COWLITZ
Change it to
Cow =COW, COWL, COWLIT, COWLITZ
and TR will display the mult as Cow.

Sometimes the first 3 letters are the same for more than one county. 
 Either use the first 4 letters for those cases or use, say, the first 2 
and the last letter.  e.g.
Kitsap becomes Kip
Kittitas becomes Kis

2.  Tell TR to not display a mult once it has been worked rather than 
dimming it.  The other mults further down the alphabet all move up one 
place so, as you work them, mults which were not displayed now will be. 
  I have found that if I can't get a clean county sweep I get some 
satisfaction from having worked enough that the remaining ones are all 
displayed.  Use CTRL-J or put into your config.dat the line
REMAINING MULT DISPLAY MODE = ERASE

Hope this helps.

73 de Jim Smith    VE7FO


alan.kaul at att.net wrote:

> In all of the other contests that TR-log  displays mults on screen, the MULT is highlighted til 
>it's worked, then it becomes  LOWLIGHTED (or vice versa).  
>
>Not so difficult when you have a contest with 80-or so MULTS.  But the TEXAS QSO PARTY 
>has a maximum of 254 mults. 
>
>That's a lot of space on screen, especially if you are using BANDMAP!  
>
>And doing it in segments, adds to the confusion -- because you'll continually have to be 
>changing screens to determine if you worked someone.
>
>73 de alan
>
>--
>Alan Kaul W6RCL LaCanada, CA 91011
>e-mail:  w6rcl at amsat.org
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>>Is there a way to configure TR to display all of the mults for a
>>contest?  Or toggle the big mult window to show them in groups?
>>
>>73,
>>
>>Fred K6DGW
>>Auburn
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