[WT-support] Status of adding the California QSO Party (CQP) to Win-Test?

[Bob Wilson, N6TV]

The biggest U.S. QSO party ever year is the California QSO Party, the "CQP",
which happens the first full weekend of October.

The CQP appears to be the only major U.S. contest not yet supported by
Win-Test.

It's a very popular contest.  Over 660 logs were received last year.  The
top California single-op made 2,750 QSOs in just 24 hours, and one CA
multi-multi station made over 4,000 QSOs in the same period.  The top
out-of-state station made 855 QSOs with California stations, and 33 stations
worked all 58 California Counties (some stations worked all 58 counties in
less than five hours).

So, is there any chance that CQP support can be added to Win-Test in time
for the 2007 CQP in October?  I am volunteering to fully beta-test any
version of Win-Test that supports the CQP, especially if this can happen in
time for the 2007 event. :-)

See http://www.cqp.org for complete rules, records, county lists, and
results from prior years.

The CQP has only a few unusual features compared to other contests already
supported by Win-Test:

   1. A station who moves to a new county (e.g. a mobile) can be worked
   again on the same band and mode.  So it's only a dupe if they are still in
   the same county when you work them on that band/mode.
   2. Mobiles who move to new counties need to begin logging again with
   QSO #001 (keep a separate log for each county).
   3. Some stations set up on a county line, and can send up to four
   different counties as part of the exchange, so there has to be room to enter
   something like this in the exchange received field "MARN/CCOS/SONO/SOLA"
   (for a MM station in the middle of San Francisco Bay).
   4. A contact with a county-line station counts as one QSO, but all
   counties logged count for multiplier credit.
   5. California stations get QSO credit, but only one multiplier, for
   working other CA stations, regardless of county logged, but the county must
   be logged.
   6. DX stations can be worked for QSO credit (but not multipliers).
   They need to send QSO number followed by "DX" instead of state/province/CA
   county.
   7. There is no "official" Cabrillo file format for the CQP (yet), but
   the WT4I and KA5WSS log converters both produce acceptable Cabrillo files.
   Cabrillo files can be uploaded via an innovative web site developed by WA6O
   (http://logs.cqp.org).  It checks the file for you when you upload it,
   so you can immediately correct any problems.  Cabrillo header information is
   ignored; it just reads the QSO records and prompts you for everything else.

73,
Bob, N6TV
2007 CQP County Coordinator
http://www.cqp.org
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