[WIQPmail] MOBILE Suffix

[Wisconsin QSO Party]

Hi, Jim -

First, it's important to distinguish between signing and logging.

Standard CW mobile signing protocol for QSO parties is exactly what you say:  CALL/CTY.  All mobiles are strongly encouraged to sign this way.  On phone, too, or at least they should frequently say the county they are in.

Entering CALL/CTY in your log is always safe.  But if your logger is QSO-party-aware, you don't need suffix on the call - just enter the callsign where it belongs and the county abbreviation where it belongs.  This will save a few keystrokes.  

If your program is not QSO-party-aware, please DO NOT enter weird suffixes to trick the program so it won't complain about dupes.  If it tricks your program, it will probably trick our log check software, too.  As I said above, entering CALL/CTY is always safe.  If your logger can't accept this, maybe you need a different one.

Hope this helps,
 - Tom, K9BTQ
   WIQP team
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Jim GM 
  To: wiqp-mail at warac.org 
  Sent: Friday, March 15, 2013 11:00 AM
  Subject: [WIQPmail] MOBILE Suffix


  Hi every one! 


  I found it hard to figure out what stations were mobile.  Took a lot of time away for hunting and pouncing. What made it easy were the stations like my old friend W9DND would send W9DND/BAR.  This helped a lot.


  Some stations just signed their call not even a /M


  Other problem was my logging program.  Not sure if others had this issue but /BAR or /M just was not acceptable with the program I was running.  What helped was /1, /2, /3 .....  This way the computer program did not see it as a DUP or call not recognized.


  Any comments?


  By the way I have an Apple computer and was running a program called RumPed. Ran real fast.



  -- 
  Jim K9TF / WA9YSD


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