[WT-support] [FCG] IARU HF Championship

[George]

Here are a few additional comments about the IARU HF World Championship.

W1AW will be W1AW/5 in this year's contest.

Z60A will be a HQ station this year for the first time.  Ops are OH2BH 
and friends.

In addition to J77HQ that our team is activating, the team in J8 will be 
activating J87HQ.  Be sure to not confuse these two call signs.  Beware 
of bad spots on the cluster.

For those of you who use WinTest, N6TV recommends that you upgrade to 
version 4.21.0 for the following reasons:

1.) Your HQ multipliers will now be counted correctly (for the first 
time), even the ones using the same HQ abbreviation, e.g. both ER7HQ and 
XX9A send "ARM", but they are different HQ multipliers. 4.20 does not 
handle that correctly.

2.) Log sync between computers will be faster (every computer on the LAN 
needs to be running WT 4.21)

3.) If you are using Windows 10 with certain USB-to-Serial adapters for 
rig control, 4.21 will work better

4.) If you accidentally press Ctrl-T, then get distracted, your radio 
won't stay keyed forever any more

Update all the Super Check Partial and Check Country files, and make 
sure you are using cty_wt_mod.dat on every computer.  N6TV's batch file 
automates the process of fetching the latest super check partial and 
country files. Go to http://bit.ly/wtscripts, download UpdateCtySCP.zip, 
and follow the directions in the Readme file. You also need a free 3rd 
party program called WGET, which is documented in the Readme file.

Separately, the current IARU HQ prefill list (itu.dtb) is in 
http://www.kkn.net/~n6tv/itu.zip and will be updated as N6TV receives 
more info from OZ0J. Unzip the file and copy itu.dtb to your /databases 
folder and HQ abbreviations will be entered automatically (make sure 
Tools -> Data Entry -> Exchange Guessing is enabled).

The three laptops that we are taking to J7 have WT upgraded to 4.21.0.  
In addition, I will have installed the UpdateCtySCP script, and the 
itu.dtb file for the HQ multiplier stations.  Next week, before the 
contest begins, I will be sure to download to each laptop the latest 
itu.dtb file of HQ stations.

All of the above can be followed on the WT reflector: support at win-test.com

If you have any question about this WT stuff, please contact me.

73, George, K5KG / J75KG / J77HQ


On 6/30/2016 8:02 PM, Chris Plumblee wrote:
> It's a bit early for my normal activity emails; the IARU HF Championship is
> not this weekend, but begins at 1200z on July 9 (8:00 Eastern on July 9;
> next Saturday) and runs 24 hours. However, it's been a while since a major
> DX contest, and I'm enthusiastically anticipating the contest this year,
> even in declining conditions.
>
> Modes are CW and SSB. Exchange is RS(T) and IARU zone. National societies
> (such as the ARRL, RAC, RSGB, and others) activate multi-multi stations
> within their countries. Many national societies that don't have historical
> callsigns (like W1AW) use "HQ" for their suffixes, so keep an ear tuned for
> the elusive extra multipliers, as some will call you.
>
> So, with the commercial out of the way, planned FCG activity:
>
> N6AR - SOHP(A) CW
> WX4G - SOHP(A) Mixed
> AD4Z - SO?P Mixed (@ W4UH)
> NP2X - SO?P Mixed (K9VV)
> KE1F - SOHP CW
> KN4Y - SOLP CW
> NN4X - SOHP(A) CW
> N2AN - SOLP CW (WC4E/1 beating us all to Europe with 40' high dipoles in
> Mass)
> NF4A - SOMixed(A) HP
> N4EK - SOLP CW
> N4UU - SOHP CW
> WW4B - SOHP(A) CW
> K4DMH - SOLP SSB
> N4BP - SOHP(A) CW
> N8PR - SOHP(A) Mixed
> N4WW - SOHP CW (WF3C, opr)
> K0LUZ - SOHP CW
> N4KM - SOLP CW
>
> J77HQ - DARCI (K5KG, WI9WI, W4IX)
> E2HQ - RAST (K4VUD, numerous Thai hams)
>
> The last two are headquarters stations. Their exchange is their HQ
> abbreviation rather than a zone. W1AW sends ARRL, NU1AW sends IARU, GB5HQ
> sends RSGB, TM0HQ sends REF, and so on. There are profile files for N1MM+
> and Win-Test that pre-fill national societies based on callsign, which can
> be very helpful when you work E70HQ and he sends you "5NN ARABH" at 54wpm.
>
> Good luck, and please send additional activations to me via email so I can
> add them to the list.
>
> 73,
> Chris WF3C
>

-- 
George Wagner, K5KG
Sarasota, FL
941-400-1960