[PaQSO] warning on PDF calculations and confirm rule for county line QSOs?

[Pete K0BAK]

I was bleary-eyed last night importing my log into a spreadsheet and doing the calculations needed by the per-county worksheets required by rovers (and mobiles). As others have commented, this activity is definitely a negative enticement to participation.

Obviously the faster way to submit multiple worksheets is to copy a PDF file for one county into the next county file and edit it (since most of the info is identical). But, I noticed that the computations in the PDF are incomplete; after changing the QSO counts, the point total doesn't change on the right hand column and therefore the total doesn't change. If you're a rover/mobile, don't make assumptions about the PDF calculations, verify everything with your own calculations.

My logger N1MM computed a higher total score than me. One reason is that I had forgotten that the 2 Penn. sections can be counted along with non-PA sections (this is pretty unusual). The only other discrepancy I can think of is for county line operations. For example, I thought that when you contact a 3-county station, that you counted 3 counties BUT ONLY ONE QSO. However, when I went back to read the rules, it's not clear ... the rules say that the county-line station gives out a single serial number, but that's not the same as explicitly saying that there is only one QSO point.

So, do I count a 3-county county-line station as 3 QSOs or 1 QSO?

Hope this isn't a dumb question.

-- Pete K0BAK