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6 years ago Hello Tom -
Have you looked thru the U.G. on tr4w.net ? pp 80 ? http://tr4w.net/TR4W_User_Manual_4.01b.pdf
Let me take you thru the Arizona QP to get you started.
1) You will need to translate the counties into a DOMestic (DOM) file. a simple version WOULD BE:
APH = APH CHS = CHS CNO = CNO GLA = GLA GHM = GHM GLE = GLE LPZ = LPZ MCP = MCP MHV = MHV NVO = NVO PMA = PMA PNL = PNL SCZ = SCZ YVP = YVP YMA = YMA
we need to put the file into directory DOM under our main TR4W directory. Ok, so the domestic file for the ARIZONA QP now exists.
NOTE: contest sponsors are not good about listing their counties in machine readable/ascii format. If you do not know how to make the dom, ASK on the TR4W forum - as someone may have already created it. For example PA_CTY.DOM is more complex but I will probably put out a PA QP addition to TR4W. In the meantime, http://tr4w.net/pa_cty.dom should work.
Next we are going to create the CUSTOM CONFIG for the AZ QP (per the U.G. writeup)
You want something like: ;AZ QSO Party MY CALL = N4AF CONTEST TITLE = ARIZONA QSO PARTY EXCHANGE RECEIVED = RST DOMESTIC QTH DOMESTIC FILENAME = AZ.DOM CONTEST NAME = ARIZONA QSO PARTY DOMESTIC MULTIPLIER = DOMESTIC FILE QSO POINT METHOD = ONE PHONE TWO CW MULT BY BAND = TRUE MULT BY MODE = TRUE MULTIPLE BANDS = TRUE MULTIPLE MODES = TRUE
If you do not already have a CUSTOM CONFIG directory under TR4W, create it, and place the file in it using a name of your choice and filetype of cfg so ARIZONA.CFG would contain the above lines.
Summary:
1) create a DOM file with the sections 2) create a CUSTOM CONFIG with the actual configuration for the contest 3) start up TR4W . it should list your existing contests AND the CUSTOM CONFIG directory. Clicking on CUSTOM CONFIG should list your custom configurations-- in this case, ARIZONA.CFG. Select the cfg and enjoy the contest.
Hope that helps/73, Howie N4AF
On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 10:22 PM Tom J notifications@github.com wrote:
I'd like to see more US State QSO Parties added: The Weekend of October 12-14, 2018 had Pennsylvania, Arizona, and Nevada QSO Parties running simultaneously and none of them are in TR4W. I tried, and failed miserably, to create a "New Contest" that would allow me to enter Contacts with the various formats - PA & NV required serial numbers and counties, AZ just RST and County. I tried starting with the CA QSO Party format and it would not allow entry of the other state counties. I tried the General QSO format and it wanted names: not part of the exchange. I have pretty nearly ZERO programming skills, but thought I could at least modify a contest format to suit my needs: no luck! So maybe I'm raising 2 issues here: 1) a request to add the QSO Parties, 2) a request to make it easier to modify contest formats to suit one's needs to log an unsupported contest: such as having a check sheet somewhere where you could check off the appropriate boxes for the exchange. Just having that and a dupe check allowing same station contacts on all bands and modes would at least allow one to somewhat efficiently log contacts.
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I'd like to see more US State QSO Parties added: The Weekend of October 12-14, 2018 had Pennsylvania, Arizona, and Nevada QSO Parties running simultaneously and none of them are in TR4W. I tried, and failed miserably, to create a "New Contest" that would allow me to enter Contacts with the various formats - PA & NV required serial numbers and counties, AZ just RST and County. I tried starting with the CA QSO Party format and it would not allow entry of the other state counties. I tried the General QSO format and it wanted names: not part of the exchange. I have pretty nearly ZERO programming skills, but thought I could at least modify a contest format to suit my needs: no luck! So maybe I'm raising 2 issues here: 1) a request to add the QSO Parties, 2) a request to make it easier to modify contest formats to suit one's needs to log an unsupported contest: such as having a check sheet somewhere where you could check off the appropriate boxes for the exchange. Just having that and a dupe check allowing same station contacts on all bands and modes would at least allow one to somewhat efficiently log contacts.