[PaQSO] PA QSO Party related utility

[Bob Crossland]

That's a great idea Allen.  I've run into that situations several times, and
it is indeed frustrating trying to determine the correct section.  

Thanks for sharing it with us.  That's cool.

Bob, N3FR



-----Original Message-----
From: Allen S. Huber [mailto:ash at allenhuber.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 10:47 PM
To: paqso at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [PaQSO] PA QSO Party related utility


Greetings all PQP lovers!

While operating the 2003 PA QSO Party I kept coming up with people on 20
M that didn't know their ARRL section.  They could tell me almost any
piece of information that didn't help--city, county, nearest interstate,
closest body of water--but simply didn't know their ARRL section.  This
prompted me to write a little utility program shortly after the 2003
Party.  I called it "SF" for "Section Finder".  SF has a county
"database" behind it of all states with multiple ARRL sections.  You
simply type the first few letters of a county and the matching counties
(and, most important, the ARRL section the county is in) are displayed.
I more or less forgot about the program until right before the 2004
Party.  I took it with me to the contest site, loaded it on the PC where
I was working, and waited to see if it would come in handy.  Indeed, it
did.  Several times the person I was working didn't know the section.
But they DID know the county, and the QSO was in the log with a few
keystrokes.

During off times during the QSO Party we had some discussion about this
little program and immediately after, I came up with Section Finder
1.01.  Added are a few tweaks, including the function of automatically
copying a match to the clipboard where it can be pasted into the logging
program and automatic minimizing of the program once a match is
selected.  I was urged to make it available to all, and I finally have
done so as part of a year-delayed site update.

If you're interested, you can download the program from my personal Web
site at www.allenhuber.com.  Look for the "SF Utility" link under "PA
QSO Party."  I very much welcome comments and your ideas for making the
program even more useful.

73,
Allen Huber, WG3E

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