[PaQSO] Query regarding county line stations

[Charles McMullen]

What Ron said!
73, Chuck, K3CM
I was the first guy ever to run a county line station back in the 
72nd year of the last century. (CEN/HUN)
And I was probably the only HUN station!

At 05:24 PM 11/3/2012, Ron Notarius W3WN wrote:
>What I think you're overlooking Tom is that in many, probably most cases, in
>the past, the county-line station represented the only station from one or
>both counties.  In recent years, that has been less of a situation due to
>the greater abundance of mobiles and rovers.
>
>Again, change the rules significantly, or ban county-line stations outright,
>you run the risk of someone pulling the same "stunt" that KC3CL did many
>years ago.  It won't be a case of someone operating for so many hours in
>County 1, then moving (even a little bit) into County 2... but someone
>handing out QSO 1 in County 1, QSO 2 in County 2, QSO 3 in County 1 to
>another station...
>
>I do not understand at all why this -- county line operation -- is an issue.
>
>
>As I recall, the original concern was over logging -- at the end of the
>station working the county line operation.
>
>Am I to understand that we have people who want to change the rules, and
>remove a type of operation that has been going on in this contest for
>DECADES, because some people can't figure out how to work their logging
>software?
>
>Surely I can't be the only person on this reflector who thinks that is, no
>offense intended, ridiculous.
>
>73, ron w3wn