Generic Simple Contest

Ragchew
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I see with the March 25 release that there is the new option for a “Generic Simple Contest”. When I select it there are two fields presented “Contest Identifier” and “Exchange Sent”. What are the options available for these two fields?
I’m interested in doing the WPX SSB contest this weekend. The contest identifier is 291 for cabrillo or CQ-WPX-SSB for ADIF. It seems that either is what I’m put in the “Contest Identifier” field. But for the “Exchange Sent”, I don’t know what to put in there to automatically increment the serial number I send.
I’m also planning on camping in a POTA park during this contest so I wanted to do a combo POTA/WPX. It seems the exchange field is automatically used for the state when both “Simple Generic Contest” and “POTA” are added if I leave the exchange field empty in simple generic contest.

Thanks for the assist!

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Sadly, the Simple Contest module does not (yet) support exchanging sequential numbers, which is required by WPX.

You can use the exchange field to enter sequence numbers received. In theory you can also use it to write down the sequence you send out, but you’d have to keep track of those numbers yourself, and you’ll have to manually edit the final Cabrillo file to put the data in the right place.

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The sequential number you hand out will be the QSO count - shown at the top of the screen + 1. The QSOs always remain in date time order so the numbers you hand out should be easy to apply.
Alan

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