[PaQSO] N3SH 2006 Bonus Station Update 08/06...

[K3YD at aol.com]

In a message dated 8/12/2006 13:16:08, ke3ht at ke3ht.org writes:

<< I would like ask the 
"Software Developers" 
to stick their heads UP and tell us what they support or if they do not
support everything this contest offers? .... I have tried a couple that say 
they support PAQSO but do not support county lines as an example (Without paper 
on the side).>>

Hi Tim,

I'm answering some of your comments from the standpoint of being a longtime 
semiserious contester.  PAQP is a very unique contest in several respects (i.e. 
1.5 point QSO's, county-line stations, rovers, double mults [county and 
section with one QSO]).  From a programming standpoint, the possible alternatives 
which must be logged and scored are huge and I cannot imagine writing the code 
to handle every possible alternative.

I have used several different programs over the years, CT, NA, KA3JWE, N1MM 
logger among others.  They are all good, they are are helpful, and all require 
just a little bit of operator ingenuity at times to handle some situation.  I 
operated PAQP back in the days before computer logging was commonplace.   Any 
halfway decent logging program is a quantum leap better than the days of 
stubby pencil!

Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but I don't see anything wrong with taking a few 
notes during a contest to record a situation which doesn't fit neatly into 
program data fields.  My favorite example is the FLA., NY, TX and CA station who 
know their county, but not their ARRL section.  (I'm picking on those states 
because each has many sections within it's borders.)

73 and see you in the contest!

Blair, K3YD