13 Colonies

This is a fun contest.  Not really a contest, but sort of.  Just work them.   So far the K2C station has the most humor.

Could be a contest, couldn't it?

Maybe the club might layer something on top of it:

1 point per callsign per band.

multiplier for each callsign (K2A and K2B would be a mult of 2)

10 multipler for the WM3PEN special station.

10 multipler for the DX special stations.

(perhaps add some other special figures in our Colonial history)

But that would take some time to puzzle out a UserDefinedContest -- and it's too late. Maybe next year 2024?   Would/may need a 3830 score template.   Next year, maybe.

Anyway, I was tinkering with the Filter on the Cluster and thought I'd share the filter I use:

Might save you a few minutes of time searching the filter syntax manual.

I threw this into my cluster command line when I want to just see the Colonies show.

set dx filter call=[k2a,k2b,k2c,k2d,k2e,k2f,k2g,k2h,k2i,k2j,k2k,k2l,k2m] and mode=cw

If you want to just get the spots for the 13 from states that are generally in our neck of the woods (RF-wise)

add this:

and spotterstate=[wa,ca,nv,az,ve]

or for just spotter state WA, trim back to 

and spotterstate=wa

Or adjust accordingly for your location

Note that these stations are working on all bands, including WARC.
http://www.13colonies.us/

If you want to also look for the three special calls WM3PEN, GB13COL and TM13COL then see below

(As you work through the call signs, you might decide to trim some out of the filter)

So the complete filters are (it's case-insensitive) -- note the clauses for either CW or SSB.  If you aren't looking for that mode, take that clause out of the filter.   They are also working digital modes (FT-8, etc..) so a mode-"less" filter might help.

# 13 Colonies as spotted by WA, CA, NV, AZ, VE   where mode is CW on any band

set dx filter call=[k2a,k2b,k2c,k2d,k2e,k2f,k2g,k2h,k2i,k2j,k2k,k2l,k2m] and mode=cw and spotterstate=[wa,ca,nv,az,ve]

# 13 Colonies as spotted by WA, CA, NV, AZ, VE   where mode is SSB on any band
set dx filter call=[k2a,k2b,k2c,k2d,k2e,k2f,k2g,k2h,k2i,k2j,k2k,k2l,k2m] and mode=ssb and spotterstate=[wa,ca,nv,az,ve]

#  3 special + 13 Colonies as spotted by WA, CA, NV, AZ, VE   where mode is CW on any band

set dx filter call=[WM3PEN,GB13COL,TM13COL,k2a,k2b,k2c,k2d,k2e,k2f,k2g,k2h,k2i,k2j,k2k,k2l,k2m] and mode=cw and spotterstate=[wa,ca,nv,az,ve]

#  3 special + 13 Colonies as spotted by WA, CA, NV, AZ, VE   where mode is SSB on any band

set dx filter call=[WM3PEN,GB13COL,TM13COL,k2a,k2b,k2c,k2d,k2e,k2f,k2g,k2h,k2i,k2j,k2k,k2l,k2m] and mode=ssb and spotterstate=[wa,ca,nv,az,ve]