[PaQSO] PAQSO Party changes

[mkempisty at comcast.net]

Please don't take my notes about N1MM as criticism of it.  N1MM is my contest logger for everything but the PQP.  It is gaining respect within FRC where WriteLog is king.  There is at least one avid WriteLog user who is starting to lean toward N1MM due to the support from Tom N1MM and his team.  For those who are "professional" contesters it is at least equal to WriteLog and in my opinion exceeds it in several categories.

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Take care, 
Mark N3GNW

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From: Jimk8mr at aol.com 

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> In a message dated 12/6/05 8:20:16 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
> mkempisty at comcast.net writes: 
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> 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. 
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> 
> 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. 
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> 2. Eliminate the EPA and WPA section multipliers. 
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> 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. 
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> 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. 
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> 73 - Jim K8MR 
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