[Dx4win] ARRL National Parks on the Air

[Jim Reisert AD1C]

Hi Folks,

I released an updated Award database that matches the ARRL NPOTA list
as of 29 December 2015.  Many of the TR## units were recently added.
There are currently 483 counters for the award.

There are a handful of NPOTA "units" that count twice.  These will
cause problems in DX4WIN for award tracking.  Here is the list:

Benjamin Franklin National Memorial                   AA03,HP16
Constitution Gardens                                  DZ02,DZ06
Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve    MN21,PV05
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial                    NM09,DZ06
Korean War Veterans                                   NM13,DZ06
Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial             NM18,DZ06
Thomas Jefferson Memorial                             NM25,DZ06
Vietnam Veterans Memorial                             NM26,DZ06
Washington Monument                                   NM27,DZ06
World War II Memorial                                 NM28,DZ06

Because you can not log more than one custom award name/value per QSO,
you can't enter both ARRL codes into DX4WIN.  There are several ways
to work around it:

1.  Work the same station on a different band/mode and log the "other"
Custom Award Value

2.  Log the QSO twice, setting different custom award values for each
QSO.  Note that QSOs in DX4WIN must be at least one second different,
or they will be treated as duplicate QSOs.

3.  Add a note to the "Notes for this QSO" field.  I put the word
NPOTA there so I can search for it later using F8 (i.e. "also NPOTA
AA11").

If you are spotting NPOTA stations, it helps to put the word NPOTA in
the spot comment, along with the ARRL code.  For example:

   DX KV4T 10140 PSK31 NPOTA HP30

CC Cluster, among others, will let you search spots by comment.  I do
it this way:

   SH/DX 'np'

It will find all spots with the text "np" in the comments field.

73 - Jim AD1C

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Jim Reisert AD1C, <jjreisert at alum.mit.edu>, http://www.ad1c.us