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Re: [CQ-Contest] Log-checking and RST [was: cut numbers]

To: Ev Tupis <w2ev@yahoo.com>, cq-contest@contesting.com,"Tim Totten, N4GN" <dcdxa@n4gn.com>, kcglist@n4gn.com
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Log-checking and RST [was: cut numbers]
From: "N4XM Paul D. Schrader" <n4xm@iglou.com>
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2006 23:43:17 -0500
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Ev,

Careful Ev.

I have been told that I don't have to have a multiplier correct.  That the
log checking software will supply the correct multiplier for a contact.

Is that correct?

What the rules say, and what and how they check, has always been two
different stories for 45-50 years.

73

Paul  N4XM



At 04:03 PM 12/31/2006 -0800, you wrote:
>----- Original Message ----
>
>> (Side-sidebar:  And if you know that -- as I suspect --  the log- 
>> checking software does not check the RST, then instead of telling  
>> me that, explain why we have to send RST.)
>
>The log-checking will not bust you for a bad RST.
>
>We have to send it because it is in the rules.
>---------------------------
>
>Disclaimer: I didn't receive the original message, so I don't know which
contest this is in reference to, however...
>
>This is not the case for ARRL events.
>
>According to: http://www.arrl.org/contests/announcements/rules-all.html
>
>3.2.All callsigns and exchange information must be sent, received,
acknowledged and logged correctly by each station for a complete QSO.
>
>Thank you ARRL!  BRAVO!
>
>If your ARRL 10 Meter contest log shows a QSO with W2EV and a received RST
of "59", it is a bust.  Nobody got that report from me.
>
>Ev, W2EV
>
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