[WIQPmail] MOBILE Suffix

[Jim GM]

/1 /2 /3 helped my program easy to weed out dupes.

If the same call shows up on 2 different bands with 2 different counties
there was no problem with that ether.

Because of the way mobiles were operating I will just have to pay more
attention if no suffix is used like 2 stations I heard.

Keep urging those to use /CTY.

More Mobile Compton is needed. Mobile need to compete with fixed station
awards as well.  They put out the effort and needs to harvest the awards.



On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 10:25 PM, Wisconsin QSO Party <wiqp at warac.org>wrote:

> **
> 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 <jim.gmforum at gmail.com>
> *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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Jim K9TF
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