[PaQSO] County Line Stations

[Pete]

Have to agree with Ron.
Learning how your (Brand-X) software handles /R, /M, /P, Bonus and County Line Stations is not something you should do when you encounter one of these during the contest, or for the first time since last October's Party.
If you play with it, (or ask how on this forum in the weeks leading up to the kickoff) just a little bit ahead of time, any of the popular programs employ a feature to log these stations who go through the trouble of being there for us. In most cases it's just an "F#" key for the fields to appear and populate.

-Pete / NL7XM



On Nov 1, 2012, at 1:00 PM, Ron Notarius W3WN <wn3vaw at verizon.net> wrote:

> No, John, I disagree.
> You may not remember the year, a ways back, that Dave KC3CL ran a County Line operation -- but I do. He claimed that the back of his pickup was sitting on the line. He was making 2 QSO's at a time, allegedly moving the chair across the line between each.
> It was silly. (It was vintage Dave as well, but that's another story)
> It was after that stunt that a rule was added to explicitly state that a County Line station gave out 1 QSO with 2 or 3 or 4 county mults. 
> Changing the rules to make life more difficult for potential County Line ops, because we have issues logging them, just strikes me as unneccesary.
> 73, ron w3wn
> 
> 
> 
> On 11/01/12, John Getz wrote:
> 
> I find it a pain to properly log county line stations. I think the rule
> should be that you can only give out one county at a time. If you want to
> sit on a county line, you can run one county for a bit and then switch to
> the other.
> 
> -- 
> John Getz, AD8J
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