Re: The state QSO Party thread

[Nate Bargmann]

* On 2021 05 Sep 09:14 -0500, Thomas Beierlein wrote:
> Hi Nate,
> 
> Am Fri, 3 Sep 2021 21:08:50 -0500
> schrieb Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us>:
> 
> >....
> > For some of these events it may be necessary to simply use Tlf as a
> > logger as anything resembling accurate scoring may not be possible
> > given the notion that stations are usually worked once or once per
> > band/mode. State QSO parties often have mobile operators that move
> > from county to county and the rules allow outstate participants to
> > work those mobiles again for point and multiplier credit when they
> > move to a new county. Some rules also permit working such a station
> > once but logging it twice when it is on a county line or at the
> > junction of multiple counties.  So far as I'm aware, Tlf would treat
> > additional such contacts on a given band/mode as a dupe.
> > 
> 
> Please have a look at IGNOREDUPES in the man page for that.

I do use that in all of my events settings which then allows logging the
station again but with zero point credit.  Normally, this is desired
behavior.  In the particular case I describe such is not the correct
behavior, however, it really only affects scoring not what will
ultimately be written to the Cabrillo file.

Case in point, last night I had one operator give me two counties for
the exchange.  The Colorado QP rules state that a second QSO be logged
for the additional county, etc.  Here Tlf incorrectly scored it as zero
points but WYSIWYG did count it as a mult.

I have a lot of work to do to clean up a log with just 22 QSOs in it!

I am also formulating some thoughts on WYSIWYG and that aspect of Tlf
and will probably open a feature request in the issue tracker in the not
too distant future.

73, Nate

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