Interesting thing about ARRL contests is this: none of these situations is
relevant.
Not entirely sure how detailed CQ rules are on this issue, but ARRL rules
provide no allowance for anything but the correct sending, receiving and
logging of callsigns and exchange information by both sides. If one side
fails, the letter of the rules state that both sides lose the contact. Now,
to be sure, the rules are not applied that stringently (if he busts your
exchange, you keep your Q, he loses his), but it IS what they say.
So if the other guy sends his call wrong, and you therefore copy the wrong
call correctly, the log checkers have only the rules to fall back on. They
don't know if you busted the copy or he busted the sending simply because
the rules do not provide for fault.
I would encourage anyone who doubts this to read the rules, ARRL General
Rules for HF Contests. (Sec. 3.1, I believe.) You will not find anywhere in
those rules "...except for when one station sends the wrong call."
Computerized log checking simply applies the log-checking goal that has
ALWAYS existed to all logs, not just a select few. That goal is to ensure to
the best ability possible that the order of finishes is correct.
Log checking had far more warts in the pre-computer days than today. We just
didn't hear about them.
73, kelly
ve4xt
----- Original Message -----
From: "Larry N7DF" <n7df@zianet.com>
To: "Contest Reflector" <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 10:33 AM
Subject: [CQ-Contest] Pirates, ghosts and things that go bump in the QRM
There are several things that should be considered when, through one method
or another, you know for certain that you worked a particular station but
the log checking process showed the QSO as a unique, busted call or not in
log:
1. The other guy may have sent his call wrong.
2. There may be a pirate using someone else's call or a fictional call.
3. Someone may accidentally send someone else's call instead of his. This
is possible in some logging programs. (i.e. in CT hit F5 instead of F4)
4. The station that actually came back to you was someone other than the
station you were calling. This happens a lot as I have confirmed by
replaying tapes of QSOs.
5. You may have typed the other station's call wrong.
6. The other guy may have typed your call wrong.
7. The other guy may have accidentally erased your call from his log.
8. You may be depending on a packet spot for the other guy's call and it is
wrong on the Packet spot.
9. Gremlins may have invaded your head and you are imagining things.
Remember E equals I times R is not just a good idea. IT'S THE LAW!!!
73
N7DF
--- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts ---
multipart/alternative
text/plain (text body -- kept)
text/html
---
_______________________________________________
CQ-Contest mailing list
CQ-Contest@contesting.com
http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/cq-contest
|