Author: Marc - ON7SS - OO9O <on7ss.oo9o@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 17:15:41 +0100
Hi all, Every year again we have to remove QSO's from a contestlog because the callsign is not traceable. We at UBA use several databases (like QRZ.COM) to check for calls, but sometimes people are n
Marc, Sad to say, encourage them all you want, but you will never get a good many non-contesters to submit a check-log. In fact, I dare say that some will simply throw up their hands and say "why bot
I'm all for checklogs, but it seems to me that removing legitimate contacts simply because a casual participant didn't send in his log is a policy problem, not a procedural one. I for one would quest
Second the motion. I rarely send in a CQWW log (you don't wanna know, so don't ask), but I'd hate to think that people who worked me didn't get credit. 3333333, Hans, K0HB/4ID I'm all for checklogs,
Some DXpeditions must really feel this effect. I for one know that I do get many casual DXers late on Sunday calling me as I am a new DXCC for them. Some are not interested in the contest at times, a
Just to be clear, the following are my own comments / opinion and although truthful, my comments should not be construed as official commentary from any contest committee I may be a member of. For at
As I read the message from ON7SS, they don't only remove Uniques for the UBA ... they intend to remove contacts for any callsign that they cannot verify via any other independent database. He specifi
Author: Marc - ON7SS - OO9O <on7ss.oo9o@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 18:24:36 +0100
Gents, Some of you didn'tread the mail correct. We don't remove uniques just because it is a unique. If it can be checked that the callsign exists, the QSO is credited. If a callsign appears in more
It wasn't in CQWW, but I recall in one year a station showed up in the All-Asia CW contest with the call 4S7AX and proceeded to work a JA pileup for over a half hour. I worked the station mainly beca