[ILQSO] Logging in The ILQP

[Hank Greeb]

Actually, when I log a station like my friend N9FN, I don't need for him 
to send the CHAM/DOUG/EDGR/VERM.eggzept to confirm that he hasn't gone 
off the deep end and occupied another four county corner, because he's 
been there since the sp*rk gap daze during ILQP.

BUT, I do log four separate lines in my logging programme, one each for 
CHAM, DOUG, EDGR, VERM because it makes it infinitely easier on the 
scoring team when they get such a log.  It slows me down just a bit, but 
I never am in the top, even 50% of entries, so it doesn't matter to me.

I've been on the scoring end of some contests, and really, truly 
appreciate a "clean" log.

That's my story, and I'm sticking with it.  Tnx 2 the fellers and gals 
who put on the great ILQP!

72/73 de n8xx Hg.

On 11/14/2011 9:30 PM, Tim Gardner wrote:
> Joe,
>
> The answer to your question about dupes, is that there are no dupes. The reason is that an IL station counts each communication with another station as one  QSO for each county he sends. Thus, if he is on a 4-county corner, your one QSO with him is logged as four QSOs, one per county.
>
>
> An real example should make this clear:
>
> N9LF (me, in Indiana) works N9FN in IL - on the CHAM/DOUG/EDGR/VERM corner.
>
> N9FN sends me four counties and I send him IN.
>
> I log one QSO, noting that I sent IN and received four counties, namely CHAM/DOUG/EDGR/VERM.
>
>
> N9FN, logs one QSO, noting my IN, but also that he SENT four.
>
>
> Now between us humans, this seems like one QSO (non-contesters might claim it wasn't even that, but let's not go down that path...).  To the log checking process, that really was four distinct QSOs...
> N9FN in CHAM to N9LF in IN.
> N9FN in DOUG to N9LF in IN.
> N9FN in EDGR to N9LF in IN.
> N9FN in VERM to N9LF in IN.
>
> So just as an IL mobile can work you again when he changes counties, so can a fixed/portable/mobile on a county line/corner (without all the bother of actually moving).
>
>
> Hopefully, that makes it a bit clearer (it isn't easy describing this in email - I need a whiteboard).
>
> Now, consider the scoring when N9FN (on that same corner) works an IL station on another county corner, say NN9K at WHTE/OGLE/LEE.  How many QSOs is that?   This is one example where writing log checking software gets a bit tricky.
>
> Please understand that I do not speak for or on behalf of N9JF or any of the ILQP organizers.
>
> Tim - N9LF
> (log checker for INQP)
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Joe<nss at mwt.net>
> To: ilqso at mailman.qth.net
> Sent: Monday, November 14, 2011 9:48 AM
> Subject: [ILQSO] Logging in The ILQP
>
> I had a blast in the ILQP a few weeks ago.  Being an ex pat (I grew up
> and first became licensed in Schaumburg) IL always will be a somewhat
> home to me.
>
> This contest is very similar in format to the WIQP.  But with the
> Multiple counties thing being the only difference. Really.
>
> In the rules it says,
>
> "Contacts with/by stations at the border of 2 counties count as 2
> counties and 2 QSOs; the border of 3 (or 4) counties count as 3 (or 4)
> counties and 3 (or 4) QSOs."
>
> Being out of the state it was easy to do the logging when some IL
> station was on a county line, Ya just logged them twice or more times
> with the different county entered, so the logging program would accept
> it just fine. And I in Wisconsin get a quick multiple QSO's and possible
> new mults.
>
> But it to me is not clear as to how does a qso like this work for the IL
> station?
>
> Example.
>
> Say the IL station is on two counties.  I work him from here in Sauk
> County WI.  I get two Qso's And whatever mults that are new.
>
> But how is this worked for the IL station?
>
> I assume it counts as two QSO's Or does it?  And then How does the IL
> station log it so it doesn't end up looking like a dupe? Because it may
> be worth two different easily logged QSO's for me.  but on His end it is
> two sontacts with me in WI with the same county and it for every
> practical reason looks like a dupe.  How does that work? And how does
> one make any logging program accept it and not call it a dupe?
>
> Joe WB9SBD
>
>