[PaQSO] County Line Operation

[jimk8mr at aol.com]

If I were setting up a contest, I would not have county line stations.
But in PA we've had them, and they seem to be popular.

It seems to me that the problem is that nothing in the rules addresses
how a county line station should be handled by the person working the
station - whether as a single QSO with two counties, or as two QSOs
with different counties.

The former may have worked in the days of paper logs, but is a bad way
to handle it with computer logging and log checking. Software becomes
very complicated if it has to allow for more than one entry in a field
designed for a single county.

There needs to be a rule to say something like "QSOs with county line
stations will count as a separate QSO with each county. The non-line
station will record the second county QSO using the next higher sent
QSO number, even though that number was not actually sent".  With that
I believe county line stations will become a pretty simple matter.

Whether QSOs made by the county line station county as one or two qsos
for that county line station is a separate question. I would suggest
not, though reasonable people may disagree.


73   -    Jim   K8MR