[ILQSO] How to log multi-county stations

[Jim Funk]

I am going to let NA9Q chime in on this as he is doing the log-massaging this year.  But I will say that every entry that doesn't "fit" gets looked at by a "real person" (perhaps bleary-eyed, but "real") so nothing gets thrown out if we can make a legitimate, non-ambiguous exchange out of it.....

-----Original Message-----
From: ilqso-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:ilqso-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Bruce Richardson
Sent: Monday, October 21, 2013 8:59 PM
To: ilqso at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [ILQSO] How to log multi-county stations

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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