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Subject: [CQ-Contest] Pirates, ghosts and things that go bump in the QRM
From: kg5u@hal-pc.org (Dale L Martin)
Date: Wed Nov 13 20:28:28 2002
7b.  The other guy has removed you from his log when, after he send you
three repeats/fills you asked for, you failed to acknowledge receipt of his
exchange but promptly launched into a CQ and worked the next station.

dale, kg5u

> There are several things that should be considered when, through
> one method or another, you know for certain that you worked a
> particular station  but the log checking process showed the QSO
> as a unique, busted call or not in log:
>
> 1.  The other guy may have sent his call wrong.
>
> 2. There may be a pirate using someone else's call or a fictional call.
>
> 3.  Someone may accidentally send someone else's call instead of
> his.  This is possible in some logging programs. (i.e. in CT hit
> F5 instead of F4)
>
> 4. The station that actually came back to you was someone other
> than the station you were calling.  This happens a lot as I have
> confirmed by replaying tapes of QSOs.
>
> 5.  You may have typed the other station's call wrong.
>
> 6.  The other guy may have typed your call wrong.
>
> 7. The other guy may have accidentally erased your call from his log.
>
> 8.  You may be depending on a packet spot for the other guy's
> call and it is wrong on the Packet spot.
>
> 9.  Gremlins may have invaded your head and you are imagining things.
>
> Remember E equals I times R is not just a good idea.  IT'S THE LAW!!!
>
> 73
> N7DF
>
>


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