I thought I'd ask before I go reinventing wheels. The CQ 160m WW CW 'test is this coming weekend and it kind of snuck up on me! Has anyone done a rules file for this contest for a W/VE station?
While I've doing quite a bit of hacking on the Tlf source, I'm still green on its rules subtleties. The rules seem straightforward: IV. Exchange: RS(T) and state for U.S., province for Canada, and CQ Zone for DX. Note: Zones are location indicators only and do not count for multipliers. This just seems to beg for a regex option for the rules file. ;-) V. Multiplier: U.S. States: (48 contiguous states); U.S. District of Columbia (DC) (1) Canadian Provinces: (14) VO1, VO2, NB, NS, PEI (VY2), VE2, VE3, VE4, VE5, VE6, VE7, VE8 (NWT), VY1 (YUK), VYØ. Note VO1 and VO2 are separate due to tradition. DXCC plus WAE countries: WAE: IT, GM (Shetland Islands), JW (Bear island), TA1 (European Turkey), 4U1VIC, Z6 Kosova. It looks like for W/VE the same list is used in ARRL DX: MULT_LIST=arrldx_mults SECTION_MULT WAE, I'm thoroughly unfamiliar with, although it's not likely that I'll work any. VI. Points: Contacts with stations in own country: 2 points. Contacts with other countries on same continent: 5 points. Contacts with other continents: 10 points Maritime mobile contacts count 5 points. There is no multiplier value for a maritime mobile contact. Do these choices looks sane? MY_COUNTRY_POINTS=2 MY_CONTINENT_POINTS=5 DX_POINTS=10 VII. SCORING: All stations—the final score is the result of the total QSO points multiplied by the sum of all multipliers (states, VE provinces, DX countries). Given the rules options above, I'll have to test the scoring this week. In reality with my antenna setup and running the K3 barefoot, odds are that the only DXCC countries I can expect to work are XE and a few Caribbean entities. 73, Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Ham radio, Linux, bikes, and more: http://www.n0nb.us _______________________________________________ Tlf-devel mailing list Tlf-devel@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/tlf-devel
