Yuri, we grow tired of your constant harping on this topic.
20+ years ago I recall you had a score reduction in an ARRL DX Contest due
to mistakes in the log. You made the argument that missing just a dot or
dash in a power should not be enough to lose the whole QSO. (Or something
like that.)
The example you provide below is equally silly. If you are not in the other
guy's log, then you didn't make the QSO. You may have thought you did, but
you didn't. That's why they check the logs.
No one is suggesting that a blown QSO is cheating (or that the penalty has
anything to do with punishing cheating). The contest sponsor has the option
to provide extra emphasis on participants getting things right.
Log checking in all of the major contests today is the most accurate and
comprehensive it has ever been. Congratulations and thanks to all the log
checkers and contest sponsors.
Randy, K5ZD
> -----Original Message-----
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> k3bu@optonline.net
> Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 1:07 AM
> To: cq-contest@contesting.com
> Subject: [CQ-Contest] Cheating by M/S - 3 QSO "penalty"
>
>
> Another reason to eliminate the "teach me the proper logging"
> stoooopid 3 QSO penalty.
> I Operated QRP in CQ WW on 160. Typically I spent half an
> hour to make QSO, waiting for pileup to die. I make few QSOs
> and I remember each of them. Then I get UBN report and I see
> that that I am not in the log of EI7M and PJ4M (? the big M/S
> anyway), I know I worked them, but they "don't have" me in
> the log. Could it be that I was "inconvenient QSO" due to
> their "creative logging" bending M/S rule and they decided to
> cross me out (what's another W/K) in order not to violate the
> 10 min whatever rule? Email to log checkers was no avail,
> "take it with perpetrators". The point is that I get
> penalized for perfectly good QSO, while "clever" M/S gets
> away with cheating.
>
> Time to eliminate the stoopid 3 QSO penalty!!!!!!
>
> Yuri Blanarovich, K3BU
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