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[CQ-Contest] Next weekend's QSO Parties and N1MM logger

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Subject: [CQ-Contest] Next weekend's QSO Parties and N1MM logger
From: Dick Frey <k4xu@bendcable.com>
Reply-to: k4xu@arrl.net
Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2019 12:39:46 -0700
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May 4/5 is The Big Weekend for QSO parties: Indiana, New England, 7QP, and Delaware - all on the same weekend. They don't all have the same start or end times but there will be activity from 13Z on the 4th to 2359Z on the 5th. And if you use N1MM+ for logging, no matter where you are, you can run all four at the same time in the same log.

Here's how. Start a new log, pick QSOParty. If you are inside one of the four, select your party from the drop-down list. If you are anywhere else, select IN7QNE as the "state". These parties permit county line operation. So when you enter an exchange like IDWAS/ORMAL N1MM turns it into two log lines for proper scoring.  Remember that each time a mobile enters a new county he is considered a new station. This is another reason to copy their whole exchange.

Each of these five "state" choices use the same multiplier list so when you receive an exchange like WORMA from New England, ORDES from 7QP, INMAD from Indiana, or KDE from Delaware, N1MM gives you the proper multiplier credit. That is, you get an MA credit as a 7QP participant and the guy in MA gets his Oregon credit.

The beauty of all this comes at the end of the weekend. Simply send your Cabrillo file to all four of the sponsors. They will score your log and disregard any non-counting contacts.

Taken together, it makes this the largest QSO party weekend.
Who says the bands are dead? Get out there and have fun.

73,

--
Dick Frey, K4XU   ...N7XU/m in 7QP

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