[PaQSO] 2004 PARTY NEWS

[Kay Craigie]

WriteLog's contest module for the PA QSO Party easily handles multiple
QTH's for a single QSO. You just separate the multiplier abbreviations
with commas on the logging line, and the program picks 'em up and tracks
them just fine.

If you create Cabrillo output of your PAQP log from WriteLog, all the
county abbreviations show up on the QSO line.

I'm disappointed, to put it mildly, that after I finally get a program
which handles the contest's multiple multipliers efficiently, they
changed the rules to make things complicated again. 

I would like to hear from the sponsors the definitive answer about how
we are to handle our own serial numbers when we work a county-line
station. K8MR's guess makes good sense, but it is a participant's guess
and not the contest sponsor's rule.

I assume we are still supposed to count the first WPA QSO and the first
EPA QSO as one QSO each, not as two QSO's each (each of these QSO's has
two multipliers -- the section and the county). But I could be wrong
about that.

Many years ago, I griped to a contest software author that his program
didn't score PAQP CW QSO's correctly (the 1.5 points vs. 2 points
thing). He said our state contest was oddball and that the rules should
be changed so his program wouldn't have to deal with that scoring
peculiarity. I thought that was tail-wags-dog, which is my reaction to
the present rules change that is driven by what some logging program(s)
will or won't do.

73, Kay N3KN