[PaQSO] PAQSO Party changes

[Jimk8mr at aol.com]

In a message dated 12/6/05 8:20:16 AM Eastern Standard Time,  
mkempisty at comcast.net writes:

N1MM  will handle RTTY/PSK through a 3rd party program but it does not handle 
the  scoring or county line stations well.  





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This is not really the fault of N1MM, but is a result of some longstanding  
oddities in the PAQP rules.  In the days of paper logs these didn't really  
matter, but today these quirks require software writers to invest extra  effort 
if they are to get it right.  For most of them the PAQP is not their  main 
focus, so they just don't bother.
 
 
With the addition of Digital modes old records will no longer be completely  
comparable, so this is the perfect time to update these rules.   Namely:
 
1.  Make all CW qsos the same point value.  The natural choice  would seem to 
be 2 points for all CW and Digital qsos, 1 point for phone  qsos.
 
2.  Eliminate the EPA and WPA section multipliers.
 
3. Give credit for two qsos with a county line station, one for each  county. 
So if you give AD3PA number 100, log AD3PA in FUL as number 100, log  AD3PA 
in FRA as number 101 (even though you never say "101"), and send  number 102 
for your next qso.
 
None of these changes would affect the nature of the contest. But it would  
make scoring it simpler and make it likely that any software would correctly  
score the contest.
 
 
 
 
73  -  Jim  K8MR