David,
Once upon a time, many years ago, the RTTY contests were conducted in
a gentlemanly fashion and the results were not so 'fixed in stone' that
an obvious error could not be corrected.
Today, some hams are so FIXATED on contesting that it has become an
OBSESSION. It stopped being fun and instead became a constant quest to
win -- win at any cost! Rent a Caribbean island QTH to assure the highest
DX score ever.
Today your log is presumed corrupt without verification. Contacts are
routinely disqualified for a plethora of reasons. If your ham friend
down the street is in your log (courtesy QSO let's say) and in the log
of nobody else -- watch it get purged.
I won the JARTS contest (7MHz, KB8LUJ) a number of years ago using paper
logs. Thereafter my logs were challenged because they were on paper (I
did not use a computer and hate ADIF). Computers are king and always
correct -- hams place last, right behind software. Today I shy away from
contests because they have lost their appeal for me.
Look for me on 17m RTTY to rag-chew instead of contest. To each his own.
73 de Phil - N8PS
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Quoting David Levine <david@levinecentral.com>:
> Received the following response to my email about being categorized
> incorrectly.
>
>
> Dear David / K2DSL
>
> Hello David.
> And sorry for wrong category.
> I checked your original log, then I confirmed your category was Class-B.
> Sorry, I missed your category...
> But the results was already fixed so it cannot be make change.
>
> 73 de JH1BIH
>
>
>
> Hopefully in 2010 the results will be more accurate.
>
> K2DSL - David
>
> -------------------------------
>
> On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 7:08 AM, David Levine
> <david@levinecentral.com>wrote:
>
> > I submitted my log as SINGLE-OP ALL LOW as well and I'm listed in the High
> > Power category as low. I checked both 2009 & 2010 cabrillo logs and they
> > show LOW in the category. The JARTS contest uses a web form for submission
> > that also asks for the operating class but I'm sure I would have selected
> > Low Power.
> >
> > I'll email the address on the JARTS site and see what they say.
> >
> >
> > David - K2DSL
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 11:40 PM, Julio VE3FH <ve3fh@yahoo.ca> wrote:
> >
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> Has anybody been listed in the wrong category in the JARTS 2009 results?
> >>
> >> I entered SOABLP and I am listed as a high power entry.
> >>
> >> Their rules (http://jarts.web.fc2.com/2010/rules2010.html) read:
> >> Classes:
> >> A) Single Op, All Band, High Power (No Power Limit)
> >> B) Single Op, All Band, Low Power (RF output is not greater than 100W)
> >>
> >>
> >> My Cabrillo file says "CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP ALL LOW"
> >>
> >> 73,
> >> Julio VE3FH
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