>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.
For all the Alabama guys:
Send an e-mail to AD1C and tell him to add your call in the country file
under zone 4. That way whenever someone works you, your call will come up
as zone 4...not 5. Works for me.
His e-mail address: jjreisert@alum.mit.edu
73,
Larry K4AB
-----Original Message-----
From: w4nti@mindspring.com <w4nti@mindspring.com>
To: secc@contesting.com <secc@contesting.com>
Date: Monday, October 30, 2000 10:05
Subject: Re: [SECC] NJ8J CQWW SSB SOAB LP
>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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>> | best, in equal misery for all.
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>>
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