/1 /2 /3 helped my program easy to weed out dupes.<div><br></div><div>If the same call shows up on 2 different bands with 2 different counties there was no problem with that ether.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Keep urging those to use /CTY. </div><div><br></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 10:25 PM, Wisconsin QSO Party <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wiqp@warac.org" target="_blank">wiqp@warac.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div><font face="Lucida Console">Hi, Jim -</font></div>
<div><font face="Lucida Console"></font> </div>
<div><font face="Lucida Console">First, it's important to distinguish
between signing and logging.</font></div>
<div><font face="Lucida Console"></font> </div>
<div><font face="Lucida Console">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.</font></div>
<div><font face="Lucida Console"></font> </div>
<div><font face="Lucida Console">Entering CALL/CTY in your log is always
safe. But if your </font><font face="Lucida Console">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. </font></div>
<div><font face="Lucida Console"></font> </div>
<div><font face="Lucida Console">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.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Lucida Console">Hope this helps,</font></div>
<div><font face="Lucida Console"> - Tom, K9BTQ</font></div>
<div><font face="Lucida Console"> WIQP team</font></div>
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<div style="FONT:10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </div>
<div style="FONT:10pt arial;BACKGROUND:#e4e4e4"><b>From:</b>
<a title="jim.gmforum@gmail.com" href="mailto:jim.gmforum@gmail.com" target="_blank">Jim GM</a>
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<div style="FONT:10pt arial"><b>To:</b> <a title="wiqp-mail@warac.org" href="mailto:wiqp-mail@warac.org" target="_blank">wiqp-mail@warac.org</a> </div>
<div style="FONT:10pt arial"><b>Sent:</b> Friday, March 15, 2013 11:00
AM</div>
<div style="FONT:10pt arial"><b>Subject:</b> [WIQPmail] MOBILE Suffix</div>
<div><br></div>Hi every one!
<div><div class="im">
<div><br></div>
<div>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.</div>
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</div><div class="im"><div>Some stations just signed their call not even a /M</div>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>Any comments?</div>
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<div>By the way I have an Apple computer and was running a program called
RumPed. Ran real fast.<br clear="all">
<div><br></div>-- <br>Jim K9TF / WA9YSD</div></div></div><div class="im">
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