[WriteLog] NAQP - New Foundland

[Ron St.Laurent ND5S]

As a point of interest - My National Geographic map, circa 1990, shows
Island of Newfoundland, the adjoining landmass to the NW as Labrador, then
the word Newfoundland stretched across both.

Ron ND5S

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www.qsl.net/nd5s

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave L Thompson" <k4jrb@juno.com>
To: <writelog@contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 19, 2003 7:07 PM
Subject: Re: [WriteLog] NAQP - New Foundland


> Several points to clarify on this.  NewFoundland and Labrador combined to
> form a new province (guess to cut costs HI) last Fall.  I would expect
> the new province to be NFL or NL.   The log checking program will either
> recognize NF or put it out on the exception report for someone to look
> at.  Someone does review the results???????
>
> There are two different items for receipt and checking the logs.  First,
> the receiving robot receives the log and either sends you a confirmation
> number or tells you that your log is not cabrillo and to submit another.
> Hopefully this first attempt is logged so that there will be no problem
> with a late log.  Second, there is a program on the log checkers computer
> that checks the logs.  On mine I can select one log, a group of logs, or
> all the logs.  In any case there is a corrected score and a exception
> list.  The log checker goes through the exception list and selects the
> good contacts.  Last year VY2ZMM was put on the list for about 15% of the
> logs as the log checking program was looking for PE.  The alias had to be
> set so that PEI and VY2 both
> were accepted.  Thus the log checking program must have the same
> multiplier and alias list you do and often changes have to made during
> the actual checking of logs.   There is someone looking at the exceptions
> for all contests isn't there?????
>
> 73 Dave K4JRB
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