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Re: [CQ-Contest] Looking up on QRZ.com

To: Doug Bates <kv4zy.1@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Looking up on QRZ.com
From: Raymond Benny <rayn6vr@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2023 20:51:43 -0700
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Your log is supplied to reflect what you copied in real time!
In most contests, using outside sources to correct a log is illegal.

Ray,
N6VR/W7YA


On Fri, Jun 2, 2023, 6:57 PM Doug Bates <kv4zy.1@gmail.com> wrote:

> Art,
> I don't claim to know all, but it strikes me as strange that a callsign
> lookup on any database could be against any rules. The nearest thing I can
> think of that may be anywhere near related in the rules of some contests is
> forbidding "Assisted" where contesters follow a cluster to find contacts
> that are currently reported as being on. Callsign lookup does not seem to
> me to be anywhere close to using a cluster to find contacts. But what do I
> know:)
> 73 & God Bless
> De KV4ZY
>
> On Fri, Jun 2, 2023 at 9:24 PM Art Boyars <artboyars@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On the N1MM reflector somebody asked about how to use the "QRZ" button
> > during the contest for calls that don't appear in the "check" window.  I
> > guess he was talking about the SCP or CHF data files loaded into N1MM.
> >
> > A few people commented that looking it up on QRZ.com (or some other
> online
> > database??) during the contest was against the rules.
> >
> > I don't see any difference between using an online databas and using SCP
> > and CHF (except that SCP/CHF is faster).
> >
> > What do you wise people think?
> >
> > 73, art K3KU
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