[PaQSO] Re: PaQSO Digest, Vol 24, Issue 1

[Mike Coslo]

bodine.669 at att.net wrote:

> How about K2UBG's Log issue?

Hi John,

You had 240 SSB QSO's

64 Multipliers

2 Contacts with YTL

Your total score was 15,760.

What I ended up doing was several search and replaces, to get rid of the 
extraneous stuff, then a lot of searching to see who was in whose log 
and at what general time they reported contact with you. That numerical 
string in the second line had the date and time in it, but was mighty long.


So that you under stand the differences between your log and what is 
expected, I'll give an example.

    The first lines of a log will contain info about the name of the 
event, the operator and callsign, and the section and or county. then we 
head into the log:

First contact of W3GA in the contest:

10-08 16:02:27   40 PH 1    WB2XXX     2                         NLI

A look at this shows that on 10-08 at 16:02: and 27 seconds on 40 meter 
Phone, W3GA QSO'ed with  WB2XXX. Our Exchange was #1, and XXX's was #2. 
Finally XXX's section was NLI.

Not hard to work with.

Your log sheet shows three lines for each QSO:

20051008161201161201W3XX 
                                                                         
                W,K     U.S.A.
                                         NN                          W3  
SNJ                    ERI       7.2      LSB 1000
Pennsylvania QSO Party               ERI               
0                   K2UBG    003

   It is a very unusual format to be sure. The information is in there, 
but teasing it out is an interesting job! 8^) The writer put in a huge 
amount of info that was not needed, which just makes it harder to get 
the info that is needed.

    I am trying to get the rest of the contest done as quickly as I can, 
so we can have an organizational meeting for this years party. I'm not 
sure, but I strongly expect that logs that come in in that format will 
not be acceptable.

    Just to be sure, I want you to know that this isn't a personal 
criticism! You just sent in the log that your software provided.

    - 73 de Mike KB3EIA -