[PaQSO] County Line Operation

[Hank Greeb]

Implementation is fairly simple.  Don't know details, but when I was in 
ILQP at a four county confluence, the N3FJP software put four lines into 
my log for every Q I made.  I had to copy three of the four counties of 
a different 4 county operation by hand, and enter them separately, but 
as long as I put new counties in the county box, it accepted and didn't 
scream dupe.  N1MM handles the "dupe" problem elegantly for the 
non-county line station working a county line station.

If N3FJP can do it, I'd say the problemme was NOT insurmountable.  I 
haven't been at a county line since switching (mainly) to N1MM, but if 
it doesn't work similar to N3FJP I'd revert to what actually does the 
job.  The N1MM code writers must be lazy if they can't figure it out.

Most every county line operation which I've worked has been counted as 
two counties and two Q's.

When I was a working stiff, I'd tell the computer gurus if I could 
conceive of a mathematical way to solve a problem, they should be able 
to figure out how to tell a dumb computer to do the same task, but 
almost infinitely faster than I could crank it out with quill and 
papyrus.  I also told them that I looked at a computer like I looked at 
a pipe wrench or a screwdriver or a distillation column or an chemical 
pipette, just another tool to do my bidding.  Some of them took a fence 
at my lack of deference to their "holy grail" of computers and 
electronic computing.  In very rare cases I actually coded the blasted 
things and showed that it could do what the experts said "can't be done."

If the method of handling two to four county operations can be conceived 
by the human brain, any computer programmer worth his/her salt should be 
able to tell a stupid computer how to do the same thing.

That's both my professional and private opinion on the subject. Proven 
by 33 years and 1 day as a Comical Engineer in a Fortune 50 company, 
Registered Professional Engineer (Ohio) for the past 18 years, and 61 
years as a ham radio LID.

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