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WAE is two contests in one. The QSOs are scored like any other, except that a multiplier is worth four on 80 metres, three on 40 and two on the high bands, so Multiplier grew a weight and ScoreTally sums weights rather than counting. Europe works the rest of the world and the rest of the world works Europe; on RTTY that rule is dropped and everybody works everybody. The other half is QTC traffic: one station reads back contacts it has already made, ten to a series, and every line is a point for both stations. Those lines live in the log as rows of their own, exactly where N1MM puts them — Exchange1 says SQTC or RQTC, the reported contact's time, call and number go in the sent report, received report and sent number columns, and the series in misc text. So a log written by either program opens in the other with its traffic intact. A QTC row is not a worked station: Contest.IsContact says so, and ContestLog keeps such rows out of the dupe index and the multiplier index while still counting their points. Cabrillo writes them as QTC: records. Checked against eight real WAE logs rather than against my own reading of the rules. Points agree with N1MM on all eight, to the contact. Weighted multipliers agree on the six logs from 2022 on; the two older ones differ only where the country file has since changed its mind, and in one place on purpose: N1MM counts a callsign it cannot place as a multiplier with an empty value. That comparison turned up two bugs of ours. A KG4 call is Guantanamo Bay only when it is three or five characters long — KG4NE is, KG4IGC is an ordinary US call — and the country file cannot say so, so every program that reads it carries the rule. And Callsign is a record holding a list of modifiers, so the generated equality compared that list by reference and two parses of one call came out different. Entering QTCs while operating is not there yet; the window is next. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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