Dave,
Check your LCR and compare the contacts you got dinged for against the
Public Log for that station. You might be surprised.....
2 years ago in the 10G and up contest I got dinged for a few QSOs as NILs
and/or incorrect grid or callsign. I checked those against the Public Logs
of the other stations. Those "bad" contacts were in every log and all the
data was correct. Submitted a query to the ARRL and never got a response as
to why I was penalized for those QSOs.
I just checked my 2025 Sept. VHF LCR. Most of the deductions were with
rovers and due to NILs.
One of those QSOs listed as NIL is wrong. I am in the other station's log
and lost QSO points and mulplier for that one.
There was another NIL in which I am in the other staion's log but there is
a 7 minute difference in logged contact time. I don't know what the
tolerance is for logging times so that may be valid deduction.
Whatever the ARRL is using to score the contests and comparing logs is
flawed.
73,
Scott AA5AM
On Wed, Mar 18, 2026 at 5:34 PM RT Clay via VHFcontesting <
vhfcontesting@contesting.com> wrote:
> Regardless of paper or software logging, either you logged something
> incorrect or you were not in the other station's log. Look at
> contests.arrl.org for that contest, there you can access the log checking
> report (LCR) showing which qsos were deducted.
> Tor N4OGW
> On Wednesday, March 18, 2026 at 03:50:28 PM CDT, David R Buckwalter via
> VHFcontesting <vhfcontesting@contesting.com> wrote:
>
> Maybe it's just me, but I am starting to be irritated by the ARRL scoring
> of
> logs submitted for the VHF contests. Several times in the past 2 years or
> so, my final score posted has bee lower that what was submitted as
> "claimed"
> score. For the past September contest results just posted my score is
> shown almost 5000 points below what I submitted. This would not concern me
> if we were still back in the day of paper logs and multi-page cross matrix
> dupe sheets, but I pay for and use logging software that tracks and flags
> dupes as well as maintaining a running and final score. The score I submit
> should be no different that what is posted in the results, minus some
> minimal amount for fat fingering incorrect callsigns and grids into the
> logging software.
>
>
>
> There, I said it. And it didn't help. I'm still irritated.
>
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>
> Dave - K3SK
>
> FM07
>
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