[PaQSO] County Line Operation

[J. P. Fox, III]

I like county line operations. I like that it is a single QSO. 

I agree with your proposal.. ...up to a point. If you change your "will" to a "may", I'd like it better. 

With there being only 67 counties, I usually know what county I've worked, so when I hear the county-line operation, I log the county I don't have. Besides, I usually have a window up to check county's worked. 

For example, if I hear a BERKS-LEHIGH operator, and if I've worked Berks, then I'll log it in Lehigh. Or vice versa. 

It's like the situation with EPA/WPA, and I don't hear anybody griping about that.  You know what I mean? There are two multipliers EVERYONE should get. You decide which county you want to use for EPA and which county you want for WPA. 

N3GWR

On Nov 3, 2012, at 10:13 AM, jimk8mr at aol.com wrote:

> 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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