[PaQSO] County Line Operation

[Steve Forst]

Hank,

Where did you go to school to become a " Comical Engineer".   I'd like 
to sign up for that one.

73, and just kidding of course, Steve KW3A

On 11/4/2012 10:43 PM, Hank Greeb wrote:
> 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.
>
> 72/73 de n8xx Hg
> QRP >99.44% of the time
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