[ILQSO] Re: IlQP K4BAI Non-IL HP

[Jim Reisert AD1C]

Hi John,

Saw your score posting on 3830:

         http://lists.contesting.com/_3830/2002-October/042016.html

>Suggestion to contest committee:  It takes an extraordinaily long time to 
>prepare the log for this contest due to the non-standard rules, 
>particularly the multipliers.  I know of one high scoring out-of-state 
>station who has said he will not submit a log since there is no readily 
>available logging program that will compute the points.  I am afraid the 
>IQP is being left behind technologically.  Probably it would be better to 
>provide modules for the popular contesting programs and make the score 
>determination more like the standard QSO Party.  If the sponsors have 
>software which will determine and add the extra multipliers, the sponsors 
>could add points in the logchecking process.
Writelog (with optional module from N9OH web page) handled the contest just 
fine.  It took all the county lines and calculated the bonus multiplier 
correctly (it shows up in the final score, but total mults does *not* 
include the bonus).

I really don't like the concept of 3- and 4-county lines.  USCA (and MARAC) 
rules tolerate 2-county lines, and this would be much simpler from a 
record-keeping point of view.  I don't see how one can possibly say they 
are operating on a tri-county or quad-county line *exactly*.  A car pulled 
over to the side of a road, with 1/2 the car ahead of, and 1/2 the car 
behind the "Entering Waka-waka County" sign is easy to understand and justify.

73 - Jim AD1C


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