[PaQSO] PAQSO announcements

[Michael Coslo]

On 9/7/10 10:45 PM, "Jimk8mr at aol.com" <Jimk8mr at aol.com> wrote:

> 
> When an eastern Canadian sends his ARRL/RAC Section - Maritime - are  we to
> log the section he sends, or log the province (NS, NB or PE) where we
> think he is according to his call sign?


Welcome to the fun world of working Canadian sections!

Mostly you log what your software will accept. Then I interpret it. My guess
is that is going to continue for a long time, because there is just no
standard for VE sections.

I got a lot of complaints about the way PAQSO handles the VE's, so when I
investigated, what I found was a mess. RAC wasn't any help. Even ARRL has
two different versions that they use. The contest manager at ARRL laughed
when I asked him about it - he knows the issue well. CAQSO uses the same
sections we used to use. Other parties and contests use different. So I
settled on the sections we use now as one used by a semi majority.

In the end, I'll do what I've always done, which is to look at the section
in the log, and interpret, because we get all manner of different names in
the logs. The software writers have the same problem I do, which is "what
are the right sections?"

    - 73 de Mike N3LI -