[PaQSO] County Line Operation

[Rob Nygren]

I like the idea. Lets keep working on it. We can figure this out!

In 1984 there were seven (yes 7!) county line stations.  Notably, KB3NV 
activated FRA/FUL/HUN, W3HDH did WYO/SUS/BRA, and W3SVJ ran FOR/JEF/CLA. 
Yikes! I'll bet that would even slow down AA3B.

Keep the ideas coming.
Lets not throw out the baby with the bath water.

Rob N3RN

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <jimk8mr at aol.com>
To: <paqso at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2012 10:13 AM
Subject: [PaQSO] County Line Operation


> 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
>
>
>
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