A few days ago I got my NCJ and when I read
the results of the January NAQP I was shocked to see I had lost 10 multipliers
in the log checking. I sent a note to Bruce, WA7BNM, and he graciously provided
me with a UBN report. It turns out all of my nine North America contacts
outside of the US and Canada lacked the QTH info in the Cabrillo file. I had
logged them correctly in TR4W, it counted them as multipliers and showed them in
the summary sheet. Unfortunately it left the QTH portion of the exchange blank
in the Cabrillo file. I checked the latest version of TR4W and it is still doing
the same thing. It can easily be corrected with a text editor but
hopefully will be corrected before the next NAQP in August.
Looking back over my NAQP entries since
switching to TR4W a little over 2 years ago it appears this problem has been
there since I began using it. The DOS version of TR correctly
included DX QTH in the Cabrillo file. I had more DX multipliers than I
normally do in last's contest January or I might not have noticed
it.
I guess another lesson learned here is to
always carefully check the Cabrillo file before submitting it!
Marv N5AW