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Re: [CQ-Contest] "Serious" Contesting

To: k9yc@arrl.net, cq-contest@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] "Serious" Contesting
From: ku8e <ku8e@ku8e.com>
Date: Tue, 07 May 2019 10:24:36 -0400
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Jim,Personally I don't think there's anything wrong with a logging program 
filling in the zone. The bottom line is you just need to make sure you 
correctly log what was sent. Checking our PJ4A report from CQWW DX CW I see we 
got lazy a few times. Logged N2IC as zone 4 once when he was in zone 5 this 
time. Guess that happens to all of us in the heat of the moment of a pileup 
when you are trying to maximize your rate. We should have been more careful but 
it's not the logging program's fault we made an error.JeffSent from my Verizon, 
Samsung Galaxy smartphone
-------- Original message --------From: Jim Brown <k9yc@audiosystemsgroup.com> 
Date: 5/7/19  1:11 AM  (GMT-05:00) To: cq-contest@contesting.com Subject: 
[CQ-Contest] "Serious" Contesting On 5/4/2019 5:45 AM, RT Clay wrote:> It 
depends on your definition of "major": CW decoders are prohibited in CQWW 
contests for single ops;It sure does -- CQWW may be the dumbest of all contests 
with a large number of stations active. For the majority of participants, the 
logging program fills in the exchange, and it's a one or two-digit number 
unique to most countries! All the op has to do is copy the call. ARRL DX is 
almost as dumb -- the exchange one of several cute ways to state TX power, or 
common state/provinces abbreviations.W6JTI and I just worked 7QP from three 
county line setups in NV. The exchange is a five letter abbreviation for the 
county and state, there are about 275 counties, so nothing is familiar, and the 
station I'm working has to copy both counties which the ear hears as random ch
 aracters with a slash in between. THAT'S a test of operating skill. As for our 
end of it -- we operated portable from three locations, driving 200 miles from 
the first to the last, setting up and tearing down a two-station antenna setup 
at each, starting at 6am and finishing at midnight.CQWW and ARRL DX are child's 
play by comparison.73, Jim 
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