[ILQSO] How to log multi-county stations

Bruce Richardson w9fz at w9fz.com
Mon Oct 21 21:58:34 EDT 2013


I was mobile in Iowa SSB-only on Saturday and activated 7 counties.
Never worked any stations IN Iowa.  Boy, IAQP is MUCH smaller than
ILQP!!!!  Sunday, I operated ILQP from my cabin in SW Wisconsin and had
a ball working you all in Illinois.  Both events were "multi-op" with my
girlfriend, Janice KA9VVQ.

My question is two-fold. First is how to log for the ILQP scoring
software to find a match on my QSO's vs. their QSO's.  Second, is how to
log for likely matches in LOTW.

For example, say I logged:
KB1C/R        599 MSHL
KB1C/R        599 STAR

KC1D/M        599 IROQ
KC1D/M        59  BOND

KD1E/LEE     599 LEE
KD1E/OGLE    599 OGLE
KD1E/WTSD    599 WTSD

And even (no /suffix):
KE1G         59  SANG
KE1G         59  CHRS

N1MM accepts all the above variations on logging the callsign. And my
initial plan is to use /R or /M when the op was sending that.  I must
tell you that I PREFER the callsign/XXXX version.  But what does the
scoring software need to have for minimal intervention?  Or will it buy
all of the above?  What do most of you stations log yourselves as? /R?
/M? /XXXX? Or just plain callsign?  (Personally, I do /M as a mobile in
QSO parties.)  I guess my question is for the non-rover and non-mobile.
I suppose then you probably log yourself as just callsign.  

2nd Part--LOTW:  I've been a mobile in the Minnesota QSO Party.  And
I've tediously built TQSL "locations" for the 7 counties I do in
Minnesota.  And then I tediously upload to LOTW with my callsign/XXX,
then again as mycallsign/m, and then again as just my callsign.  I get a
different 5% QSL rate via each suffix variation.  Yeah, I know, this
second part of the question is about LOTW matching.  What do most of you
portable stations upload as?  Plain callsign? /R? /m?, or /XXXX?  I must
tell you that with all my VHF roving, I ONLY upload as mycallsign/R
because that is what I send during the contest.

Interested in answers and opinions.

73
Bruce Richardson W9FZ  



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