One of the 'programs' out there (think it's CT) has All of the 4th area in
zone 5. Alabama is zone 4. I am constantly asked also.
Dan/W4NTI
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ben Coleman" <oloryn@mindspring.com>
To: <secc@contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2000 11:42 PM
Subject: [SECC] NJ8J CQWW SSB SOAB LP
> 2000 CQ WORLD WIDE DX CONTEST
>
>
> Call used: NJ8J
> Location: 05
> Category: Single Op All Band Mode: PHONE Power:
> 70W
> Callsign of Operator: NJ8J
>
> Exchanged Information: NJ8J RST 05
>
> Hours of Operation: 25:42
>
> band QSOs points zones ctys
> ---------------------------------------
> 160 2 0 2 1
> 80 3 4 3 2
> 40 25 64 6 18
> 20 63 157 13 35
> 15 89 231 19 46
> 10 218 608 23 71
> ---------------------------------------
> TOTAL 400 1064 66 173 SCORE: 254,296
>
>
> Club or Team Name: South East Contest Club
>
>
> Comments:
>
> I basically jumped into this as a way of practicing on using NA
> (recently purchased, and running under dosemu on my shack Linux box)
> before Sweepstakes. I hadn't planned on putting in 25 hours, but I
> guess I got carried away.
>
> Friday night I almost felt like I might as well as skipped, as
> operating LP with a 'Bedsprings' level antenna (100' ladder-line-fed
> doublet up ~30 feet) was rather frustrating (just 33 Qs in the first 4
> hours of operating). Saturday and Sunday were better (particularly on
> 10 meters), but I felt the lack of low-angle-of-radiation antennas the
> whole weekend. You can have fun in domestic contests with a doublet
> antenna, but for DX contests it gets rather frustrating. I'm now
> motivated to see what I can do to improve my antenna situation.
>
> I was left wondering how many of the ops on the other end would end up
> with busted contacts for my QSOs because they trusted their contesting
> software and didn't listen. NA (and I presume other contesting
> software) has this nifty feature where it figures the proper zone from
> the callsign and inserts it in the exchange, saving some typing. It
> breaks, however, for people like me, who have moved from one zone to
> another but kept the old call sign (I *like* having a 2x1, and I'm not
> interested in paying for a vanity call to get one for 4-land. Sorry.).
> Comments and queries told me of some who caught it ("Did you say 04 or
> 05?" "05" was a not uncommon conversation). One didn't catch it until
> the third contact("Did you say 05?" "Yes, 05" "Oh. I logged the other
> 2 contacts as 5904"), and at least one other had to jot down a note to
> go back and fix earlier contacts. I have to wonder how many didn't
> catch it. I guess I'll find out from the log analysis.
>
> (Not that I'm complaining about the feature. It *is* handy - I had a
> few contacts where I would have ended up with mis-copied calls except
> that the reported zone differed from the calculated zone, and this
> prompted me to recheck the call. I'm just saying that ops shouldn't
> allow contesting software to substitute for actually listening to the
> exchange.)
>
> One question: The contest rules are a tad bit confusing on log
> submission. If I submit via email, do I have to submit more than the
> Cabrillo-format log, and a summary?
>
> Ben
>
>
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