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Submitting contact with several multipliers

Open VictorDenisov opened this issue 2 years ago • 8 comments

California QSO party has this concept of county lines. Contact with county line stations gives two multipliers. Are there any ways for recording several multipliers in one QSO?

VictorDenisov avatar Oct 15 '23 05:10 VictorDenisov

If it were contest exchange + DXCC, then it would be possible with some minor coding. (see last comment for #252 ) Recording two arbitrary multipliers is currently not possible, but it's on the roadmap (that why generic multiplier is called mult1...). It'll however require a substantial rework of addmult.

zcsahok avatar Oct 15 '23 20:10 zcsahok

I have a possible solution in https://github.com/zcsahok/tlf/tree/poc_xmult

The idea is to treat the plugin-generated multiplier string as a list of space separated individual mults and check each of them. The ones that could been applied will be added to the mult field of the log line. There are only 8 chars available, so for two 4-char wide counties the second one gets a bit truncated.

Another basic change is to update mult1_value with the actually applied mults, thus moving away from using globals like new_mult.

The rules are just checked in directly under test/rules/cqp_dx. After review they have to be moved to rules/. A separate test for CA stations could also be added.

zcsahok avatar Nov 22 '23 21:11 zcsahok

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zcsahok avatar Nov 23 '23 04:11 zcsahok

I presume the truncated mult is truncated only on the screen. It's not really truncated for accounting purposes. Right? There are a couple of counties that are indistinguishable once truncated to 3 letters.

VictorDenisov avatar Dec 01 '23 00:12 VictorDenisov

Yes, it's only truncated in the "applied multipliers" field. The last QSO works TULA again and it is not counted, only KERN. Same for the second QSO on the screenshot.

zcsahok avatar Dec 02 '23 08:12 zcsahok

I tested. It looks fine to me.

VictorDenisov avatar Dec 02 '23 20:12 VictorDenisov

Are there plans to merge this change?

VictorDenisov avatar Oct 01 '24 01:10 VictorDenisov

I'm working on it.

zcsahok avatar Oct 01 '24 05:10 zcsahok