Hey, folks: I'm setting up for the New England QSO Party, which starts tomorrow, and have gotten things mostly working. I'm trying to build a rules file for it, though, and am confused about the MULT_LIST setting.
For background, New England stations in the NEQP must log the whole exchange (county-state), but we only get multiplier credit per state. Only stations outside New England get the county multipliers. That means I'll be logging, for example, HMD MA and MID MA, but I need both of them to count only for MA. That means the WYSIWYG_MULTIBAND setting won't work. Looking at the manual pages, I think I can accomplish this with aliases in MULT_LIST. To test it out, I first tried uncommenting this line in the sample rules template: MULT_LIST=us_canada_states but that didn't seem to do anything. I figured out that file doesn't exist in my installation (built from the release tarball source), so I created it and put it in /usr/local/share/tlf. Unfortunately, TLF still doesn't seem to use it. Logging a few contacts with state abbreviations scores zero multipliers. The file I created is just a text file called us_canada_states, with one state abbreviation per line as specified in the manual. So how do I get the MULT_LIST to work properly? Is there a rules file that provides a good example of a working state QSO party setup? Better still, does anyone have a working rules file for the NEQP inside New England? Thanks. -- --Alan (AB1XW) -- Alan Dove, Ph.D. alan.d...@gmail.com 917.273.0544