[Elecraft] EQP: States, Rules and Software

[Deinhardt, Toby]

Hallo,

> We could still change this. But in fairness to those who have written
> EQP-compatible software, I won't change the exchange from "name" to
"state"
> unless they feel that their software can be modified in time to accomodate
it. Toby?

Due to a new TV-Show (QRL) the likelyhood that I will be able make any more
changes 
to this year's software is very poor. Sorry.

I do plan on doing further work with this, so any and all suggestions for
next years
version are welcome (dj7mgq@muenchen-mail.de). Also because Pure Basic also
has a
compiler for Linux, there is a real chance that I might be able to produce a
linux
version as well. 



> Just a suggestion and assuming the "name" will accept a comma or period,
> could the state or provivce abbreviation be added to the name ie-
> Fred,On
> Wayne,Ca

As long as you do not enter xml like tags in the edit fields, this should
not
cause any problems.



> Any change should also include Canada since it is divided into 
> provinces.  But, as stated above, other countries can be identified by 
> their callsign prefix.

I do not think this is a good idea. I always feel very silly when:

 aa1aa de dj7mgq ur 599 dl dl k

My call already identifies me as a DL. If one really wants to do something
with multipliers, one pet idea of mine is that the QSO is scored as the
number of km (or miles) per watt, i.e. 1000km using 2W TX is worth 500
points
and 1km using 1uW would then be 1000000 points.



vy 73 de toby