I may be the only one unfamiliar with this, but what is a county-line
QSO? I take it that relevant station/person is literally, or perhaps
theoretically, straddling the line between two counties? I've just never
come across this term before.
73,
Jay/K4OGG
At 02:47 PM 10/23/2002, John Laney wrote:
>My recollection is that we had the rule of no county-line QSOs due to
>the difficulty with the logchecking program decyphering the mults and
>that CT and NA would not accept more than one county info per QSO.
>Apparently Writelog has a module that can be configured to account for
>that, but the current one does not. So, that module would have to be
>modified to account for any such rule change.
>
>NA and CT do not have the ability to show two counties on the QTH line.
>If you double up the QSOs, then you artificially inflate the number of
>QSOs actually made. The logging programs and logchecking programs would
>probably work OK for QSOs shown this way.
>
>My other objection is that it encourages mobiles to operate in possibly
>dangerous situations, where there is insufficient shoulder to safely
>park on, etc. I'd rather they were in motion on the road or parked
>safely well off the road in each county.
>
>I am opposed to permitting county-line QSOs at all. If they are
>permitted, then the QSOs also should be doubled to make the logging
>programs and log checking programs work correctly. In Illinois, the
>rules just say to count multiple QSOs and multipliers for each of the
>multi-county line counties. In Texas, they insist on separate QSOs for
>each county in a county-line situation, which is really stupid sounding
>and wastes a lot of time. "OK, QSL the first county. Now here is the
>second one, 59 in XXX county. Am I still 59 in GA? OK, now here the
>third county is ZZZ county. What is my report for ZZZ county, etc."
>
>I'd like to leave this rule alone or change it to say just no
>county-line QSOs are permitted.
>
>73,
>
>
>John, K4BAI.
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