[MiQP-Mail] Attention N1MM Users (additional info)

[Hank Greeb]

Perhaps if the N1MM programmers were to put in a algorithm in their 
setup screen to check for a "legitimate entry field" for the county or 
S/P/C then it would be impossible to finish the setup with "MI" in a "in 
state" operation.  This would NOT elminate the possibility that an 
operator chose the wrong county, but....

Or, at least have the setup screen put something like "State if out of 
state, or County if in state".

This "might" catch the eye of the person setting up for a contest.

72/73 de n8xx Hg
QRP >99.44% of the time

On 4/19/2015 3:31 PM, David Pruett wrote:
> All:
>
> Tim's comments are right on the money  He and I see this over and over 
> again in MiQP (which I logcheck), OhQP (which Tim logchecks), the ARRL 
> 160M contest (which Tim logchecks), and finally the ARRL 10M Contest 
> (which I logcheck).
>
> Bob/KØRC posted a note earlier attempting to help another N1MM user 
> with a problem involving QSO number sequencing, but his advice may 
> help solve this problem also. He said that in the N1MM Contest Setup 
> window, for MiQP it should be setup as "001 URCOUNTYABBRV" (no quotes).
>
> (Added K8CC comment):If your program is not set this way, you should 
> be able to change this and re-generate a new (corrected) Cabrillo file 
> from the N1MM program.Of course, this assumes that URCOUNTYABBRV 
> (e.g., your county abbreviation) is set correctly to your county 
> abbreviation elsewhere in the program.
>
> If this isn't clear enough, I'm sure that somebody on the N1MM 
> reflector can explain it better.
>
> Hopefully, this helps N1MM users to generate correct logs that will be 
> accepted the first time, saving them some effort.
>
> 73,
>
> Dave Pruett. K8CC
> MiQP Contest Manager and One-man Logchecking Team:-)
>
>
> On 4/19/2015 7:48 AM, K9TM wrote:
>> Every year we get many attempts by N1MM in-state (MI) users to submit 
>> logs that do not have the sent information correct.  Instead of 
>> putting your county in, it puts something else… like state.  Please 
>> see the N1MM documentation or seek guidance from the N1MM support 
>> community as to how to correctly configure the software.
>>
>> The web submittal page will give you the following messages…
>>
>> Number of raw QSOs found is 500.
>> Wrong sent QTH in log occured 500 times. You entered INGH as your QTH.
>> Your Logging Software is CREATED-BY: N1MM LOGGER+ 1.0.4857.0
>>
>> This is telling you that whatever the logging program put into your 
>> log does not match the same county that you told the web page you 
>> operated from.
>>
>> This is a very common problem with N1MM and we see it in all the 
>> contests that we check and we see it year after year.  We have 
>> contacted N1MM in the past about making the software more robust.  
>> Perhaps the users can convince the software vendor to make the 
>> software more robust?
>>
>> 73, Tim K9TM
>>
>> BTW, this happens to out of state entrants as well… especially if you 
>> operate from multiple locations using the program.
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