I had to smile. Two times that I remember in this contest I worked two
runners with one exchange and got them both in the log. Only possible w/o
sernos, hi.
73, Dan
On Sat, Feb 21, 2026, 7:51 PM <john@kk9a.com> wrote:
> Every serious contester loses QSO's for not being in the other station's
> log. There are a variety of ways this can occur such as them working
> someone else on the same frequency, sometimes during a fast rates they may
> not be sure that you copied their report or got their callsign correct or
> they may have accidently wiped out the QSO before logging it. I certainly
> have typed over an unentered callsign and had to try to fix it in the heat
> of the battle. Operating assisted or on RTTY, it's easy to click on a call
> and wipe out the one already in your QSO window that you forgot to log. I
> don't use N1MM, I wonder how you contributed this to an N1MM feature?
>
> Regardless of the cause for NIL, this is a good reason to work all dupes
> should they happen call again later in the contest!
>
> John KK9A
>
>
> Yuri VE3DZ wrote:
>
> For a couple of years now, I am checking the UBN file supplied by the
> Contest Sponsors against my audio recordings, public LOGs and my own LOG.
> I am shocked to discover how many good QSO's in my LOG are ending up being
> marked "Not In LOG" and I am being penalized for that (I'm sure others
> getting it too).
>
> While some casual operators are submitting incomplete LOGs, the most common
> problem contributing to NIL is... well known feature in the N1MM Logger:
> "QSYing wipes out the call...".
> Maybe other Loggers have similar feature too.
> If you are doing mostly S&P'ing, please... PLEASE... disable that feature
> for the Contest. No matter how good you are, there will be a moment when
> after making a QSO you would forget to hit Enter. And there you go - good
> QSO would just disappear when you charge your frequency.
> Not only you lose a perfect QSO (very often, a multiplier), but you also
> penalize the other party, who thinks he made a good QSO.
>
> Thank you!
>
> 73, Yuri VE3DZ (TO4A this weekend)
>
>
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