[WriteLog] NV QSO Party

[Alan Zack]

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Hope this is not a DUPE. For whatever reason, unknown to me, when using MS Outlook, when I try to send a email or make a reply my email gets rejected by the writelog server. So I am resending it via MS Mail which I normally never use. This is a new problem as I have been able to make posts for over 10 years.

To me the major concern is that it would not accept the ARRL Sections. As you noted it is set up for states as the MULT but should be by sections. When someone would send SJV, SDG, ORG, LAX, EWA, ENY, NNJ, MDC, NTX, STX, etc etc as they should WL would reject them. I didn't see a work around other than keep a written log on paper and correct the final log before submission but that would be a lot of work. I speak from experience. I started contesting before computers. Back then we used a paper log with separate DUPE sheets for each band that we checked before answering a CQ to be sure it was not a DUPE. You can see my 1960's Heathkit contest station on my QRZ.COM page. A real PITA but not as bad as using RTTY from the cockpit of a C-130. I had several tapes I could run thru the ASR-32 tape reader for my position reporting, etc. Then the flite mech would come up into the cockpit bringing coffee or box lunches and plant his size 12 boots on my tape as it was running. Fun, Fun. I could tune onto the API/UPI Intl HF freqs and print out a daily newspaper as we traveled all over the world. 

Alan K7ACZ

-----Original Message-----
From: WriteLog On Behalf Of Steve Woodruff
Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2020 06:47 AM
To: WriteLog Reflector <writelog at contesting.com>
Cc: Alan Zack <k7acz at cox.net>
Subject: Re: [WriteLog] NV QSO Party

Hi Alan,

I wrote the NVQP contest module many years ago and it is likely that the county abbreviations have changed but the module hasn't been updated to reflect that.  

In fact, I just went and took a look.... and the county abbreviations are different than they were when I wrote the module, but only slightly.  Now they list them with the NV prefix.  So instead of CAR, CHU, CLA, etc... it is NVCAR, NVCHU, NVCLA.

In WriteLog you can go to the contest menu and click 'show multipliers' and it would have shown what the WL-accepted multipliers were and you could have logged them as CAR, CHU, CLA, etc... and then edit your cabrillo log before submission to add the NV prefix to those county abbreviations.

I also see that for Nevada stations, you are to log the "ARRL/RAC section" of the non-NV station.  Right now the module is just setup for states/provs.  That'll need to be updated as well to support ARRL/RAC sections instead of states. 

Regardless, i'm sorry this happened to you and anyone who used the NVQP module this year.  I'm going to make an update to the module this week so that its fixed for 2021.  

Enjoy,

Steve N9OH