Art, K3KU asks:
> 1. If it's OK to use "call history" files, is it OK to look up states in
> the (on-line) callbook. Why should one list of historical data be OK, and
> the other not? (I did NOT look up anybody's state or name in the 'Test.)
This feels like the slippery slope concept to me.
"Call history files" (aka SCP) is a tool most people are okay using. Some
logging software (mine included) allows you to create databases with exchange
information from previous contests - or other people's logs.
How you use that information is where the tricky part comes in.
Using a database or callbook AFTER the contest is generally considered a bad
thing. The point of the radio contest is to exchange information over the
air - not to see who can look up the most information from a callbook or
qrz.com.
Something I see occasionally that really bothers me - are people who bust
callsigns and then end up with a "correct" exchange that obviously comes
from a callbook. Recent examples come from guys who bust a callsign in the
Stew Perry contest.
Here is an example:
K7RAT is worked by N6TR - but he busted the callsign to KL7RA. KL7RA was
not on for the contest - and instead of showing CN85 for the grid, N6TR
looks KL7RA up on QRZ.COM and puts BP40 in the log for the grid.
People actually do this - and it sure makes us log checkers wonder. These
kind of things stick out like sore thumbs in any complete log checking
process. When K7RAT's log shows a QSO for N6TR - and when I look in N6TR's
log, I find a QSO with a unique callsign at the same time - I know something
is fishy.
Tree
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