IARU HQ mults

[R. Torsten Clay]

Since I am planning on operating IARU I am going to review this contest in detail over the
next weeks. There are some subtle cases where the program get the multipliers wrong for the
IARU contest.

For the HQ stations, SO2SDR just counts the number of different HQ abbreviations. One problem is
that a few HQ stations use the same abbreviation, in which case one mult will be lost. For
example, both Cyprus and the Cayman Islands are CARS. I think this is the only commonly
occurring example I remember.

There is no easy fix I can think of- you could check callsigns as well, but then the problem
is that some HQ stations use different callsigns on different bands.

Tor
N4OGW

[Nate Bargmann]

* On 2012 27 Jun 11:26 -0500, R. Torsten Clay wrote:
> There is no easy fix I can think of- you could check callsigns as well, but
> then the problem
> is that some HQ stations use different callsigns on different bands.

There does come a point where it's the ARRL contest branch's problem to
sort out. ;-)

Regardless, I presume that callsigns must follow the ITU prefix
assignments. OTOH, even if the program determines something to be a
mult/dupe/invalid, it is my thinking that it should always defer to the
operator's decision to log the contact and it should not change what the
operator entered. I can appreciate the program helping to avoid Q
penalties by employing prefill, for example, but there is a time when
the op must take the blame. ;-)

There are times when we must decide to log what we hear (incorrect zone,
etc.) from the other op or choose not to log the Q at all forcing the
other op to suffer the NIL for his carelessness.

I look forward to the improving feature set.

73, de Nate >>

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