Good point. I hadn't considered that.
My thought process is as the administrator of a QSO Party. My state,
Hawaii, has parallel parties going on in Ohio and Kansas. I approached them
with the thought of a combined effort to maximize participation. Nothing
ever came of it but we did wind up with non overlapping mult names. I have
no problem with logs that include 100 OH QSOs and only one KH6.
73, Alan AD6E / KH6TU
On Sat, Apr 19, 2025 at 5:45 PM Jeff Stai <wk6i.jeff@gmail.com> wrote:
> hi Alan - I'm only just dipping my feet into this for the first time..
> participants in the State QSO Party Challenge are supposed to post on 3830,
> at least a QSO total for each SQP. So that means we'd need scoring.
> Reference:
>
>
> https://stateqsoparty.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/2025SQPCHALLENGERULES.pdf
>
> I understand there are other logging programs that can manage this at some
> level. My search of past emails indicates that you basically need to
> save/load a separate .wl file for each SQP, which is probably okay enough
> for casual S&P.
>
> I could imagine a generic module where you would check box the desired
> SQPs, and then WL would spit out a scoring summary .txt file at the end
> listing scores for each SQP, and a single Cabrillo file for log submission.
> I'd consider doing it if I knew how to write a module for WL. 🙂 73 jeff
> wk6i
>
> On Sat, Apr 19, 2025 at 10:20 AM Alan Maenchen <ad6e@arrl.net> wrote:
>
>> I'll second that motion Jeff - although this has been discussed before,
>> it's been a while.
>>
>> I would like a generalized QSO Party module although I realize keeping a
>> running score of each could be a real bitch to code. Maybe keeping a
>> claimed score isn't so important? Yes, log checking simply ignores Qs made
>> outside of their time or wrong mode .. or wrong party. (I know that's true
>> for many but I haven't checked them all)
>>
>> I have tried logging multi-party by picking one state and then logging
>> with
>> SHIFT-ENTER for the "wrong" mult name. However some QP modules don't allow
>> four characters or have some other restriction so be careful. I don't know
>> of one that could be "universal". Maybe the simplest solution is a QP
>> module that allows ANY mult name without complaint? And doesn't bother to
>> keep score. When working from outside the state it's not difficult to keep
>> a mult list for each QP on a piece of paper if that's of interest (It is
>> to
>> me).
>>
>> 73, Alan AD6E / KH6TU
>> ARRL Pacific Section Manager
>> Hawaii QSO Party Chairman
>> ex - CA QSO Party Chairman
>>
>>
>> >
>> > Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2025 16:44:32 -0700
>> > From: Jeff Stai <wk6i.jeff@gmail.com>
>> > To: Writelog Reflector <writelog@contesting.com>
>> > Subject: [WriteLog] multiple state qso parties
>> > Message-ID:
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>> >
>> > I thought I might fire things up tomorrow for the NE, MI, ON, and QC
>> state
>> > QSO parties.
>> >
>> > Do we have anyway to effectively handle the 4 contests in Writelog? The
>> > advice I'm seeing online is to log to a single file, and let the log
>> > checking of the various SQPs sort it out. I can imagine there could be
>> such
>> > a module somewhere in Writelog but I'm not seeing it?
>> >
>> > Or does this mean I finally have to go to the dark side?
>> >
>> > 73 jeff wk6i
>> >
>> > ps, not seeing the QC party on the new log list either...
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Jeff Stai ~ WK6I ~ wk6i.jeff@gmail.com
>> > RTTY op at W7RN
>> >
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> Jeff Stai ~ WK6I ~ wk6i.jeff@gmail.com
> RTTY op at W7RN
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