[PaQSO] County line scoring

[Michael Coslo]

> On Oct 11, 2016, at 8:18 AM, Pete K0BAK via PaQSO <paqso at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
> 
> My understanding, and how I computed my scores for all three years, is that you get only 1 QSO for a county line station; you get multiple county multipliers with one contact but just one Q. And N1MM does not compute that correctly; it creates separate log entries for the counties but with the same serial number ... and it computes your score too high based on those multiple county line Qs.
> Would love to hear if I got that wrong from an authority.

The way N1MM scores it is correct. You get 1 or two  QSO points for each contact. and you get any of the counties the county station is operating in. 

So when N1MM assigns  0 value to the second entry, it is doing it correctly.  Or the third and fourth and so on. 

Now some people ask what exactly the rationale for this method of scoring is. Here we go:

Le’t say the county line station gets QSO points for each station it contacts. Let’s say they have a 4 county line operation and are operating CW. 

This means for each single QSO they operate, they are getting 8 points. 

And of course, 4 points for each Phone QSO.

That’ll wind up a score pretty quickly. 

And for those working a county line station, a similar situation holds, only not so extreme. 

But N1MM gives you the correct number of points and counties.


> One other thing to compute differently from N1MM is that the PA sections count as multipliers (the other area QPs I'm aware of explicitly exclude the home state sections). So you have to add in 2 section multipliers for WPA and EPA (this assumes you contacted counties in both sections, which of course is true for almost everyone). At least the county line problem and the PA section problem offset to some degree.

The first log entry from EPA and WPA gives the multiplier for the section, and of course the county.

N1MM does this correctly. 


But as for the county line situation, it is what I get the most questions about every year.

If it were up to me……..

- 73 Mike N3LI -