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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hello,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I have a question regarding multi operator and multi mode logging<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Current our club is using the N3FJP software suite for event loggings, <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>We have download and installed the latest state QSO Party logging software from there site.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I sent him an email regarding the NON Network abilities with his program for state QSO parties in hopes he had an easy less confusing answer to Multi Operator and or Multi Modes on a band. See below<o:p></o:p></p><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><hr size=2 width="100%" align=center></div><p class=MsoNormal>: <span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Hi Rick, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Thanks for your e-mail. Right now, I have network versions coded for six of my contesting programs. After the rewrite, I hope to have network versions for all of them.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Presently, other than Field Day, the stand alone versions of my software are not designed to combine your log data. If you are very careful, you can open each of your log.txt files in Notepad and then copy and paste the data into a master file. Be very careful not to introduce any extra carriage returns or formatting characters. You'll want to double check the end of the file as that is where extra carriage returns often appear. Of course, back up all your data before your begin. This method will not check for duplicates.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>73, Scott<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>N3FJP<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="http://www.n3fjp.com/">http://www.n3fjp.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><em><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Serving the Amateur Radio community with contesting and general logging software since 1997.</span></em><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>-----Original Message-----<br>From: Richard Langford KD8LCD <<a href="mailto:kd8lcd@kd8lcd.com">kd8lcd@kd8lcd.com</a>><br>To: snkdavis <<a href="mailto:snkdavis@aol.com">snkdavis@aol.com</a>><br>Sent: Wed, Jul 4, 2012 7:18 pm<br>Subject: state QSO party question<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Hello Scott<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>The Field day software worked well, we are registered club: call sign W8AJT<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>We are going to do the Ohio state QSP Party coming up in august, so I installed the software on my computer to see how it works, at first I had the 1,7 version and noticed on the site 1.9 was available so I grabbed and installed it. But I’m still at a loss regarding using the software with a Multi Op environment.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>The FD Network version allows you to set a path or map to a shared directory for access to the database or adif file for the other stations nothing like that in the state QSO software?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>So I figured not a big issue we can import and export, well that doesn’t seem to be an option either, wait even if it was it might be a problem since there is a serial number involved with the outgoing exchange.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal> So how can we track serial number assignment to qso’s<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><hr size=2 width="100%" align=center></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Scott answer seems okay to a point<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>But now regarding the rules as you have posted on the site:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><em><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Bands & Modes</span></b></em><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>:<br>CW and SSB on 80, 40, 20, 15, and 10 meters. Stations may be worked once per mode on each band; i.e. K8MAD may be worked on both 40 CW and 40 SSB for point credit. Each station may be contacted 10 times (once per each of the 5 bands and once per mode on each band).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>MULTI OPERATOR: Entries where more than one operator performs the operating and logging functions or stations that use Skimmer*. Multi-operator entries may employ multiple transmitters simultaneously and are not categorized by power. All multi operator entries are classified as mixed mode.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Exchange</span></i><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>: </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:black'> Taken from your Ohio QSO party rules:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:-.25in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:red'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;color:red'> </span><b><i><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:red'> </span></i></b><b><i><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Multi-op stations who can't maintain sequential serial numbers regardless of band/mode shall give serial numbers by band mode (75m ssb 1-# 75m ssb qsos, 80m cw 1-# 80m cw qsos, 40m ssb 1-# 40m ssb qsos, 40m cw 1-# 40m cw qsos and so on...).</span></i></b><b><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>I am really confused regarding the above can anyone provide some examples possibly<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>For instance if we were to run say 3 stations 1 on 20 Phone, 1 on 10 M phone and a 40M CW station.. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>????????<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Next how about 20M phone and a 40 meter Phone and a CW station<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Or 2 phone and a CW<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:-.25in'><span style='color:black'>I get the part about each station tracking spate serial numbers? That is understand, what is confusing is: </span><b><i><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>(75m ssb 1-# 75m ssb qsos, 80m cw 1-# 80m cw qsos, 40m ssb 1-# 40m ssb qsos, 40m cw 1-# 40m cw qsos and so on...).</span></i></b><b><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='color:black'>What is the exchange we give ??? or have I made this harder than need be,<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='color:black'> Do we just operate each station independently assigning serial numbers as each station goes, than at the end I combine the output files? If so the serial numbers are screwed up then<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='color:black'>Any examples using a multi operator mixed mode exchange would really be helpful.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='color:black'>Sorry if I have made this more confusing then need be, just want to get it correct beforehand so all the members of our group understand<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Any help greatly appreciated<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Rick <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>KD8LCD <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'> for W8AJT<o:p></o:p></span></p></div> <BR><BR>__________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 7278 (20120707) __________<BR><BR>The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus.<BR><BR><A HREF="http://www.eset.com">http://www.eset.com</A><BR> </body></html>