I have already responded privately to Scott as to his suggestion for
everyone to log C6APR first in the contest this weekend. I think it is
excellent, except for the fact that we have no provision in Cabrillo
format to log a station and not take credit for the QSO that didn't
really happen. If we log it, we will be taking credit for QSO points
and possibly even a multiplier that we didn't earn.
One possibility would be to log C6APR BEFORE or AFTER the contest
period. I think the contacts then would be deleted and not credited by
the logchecking software. You could log C6APR at 2359 UTC on Friday and
it would not affect your score. NOTE HOWEVER that it would (at least
with most logging programs that I am familiar with) increase your
claimed score and show the C6 multiplier as worked when you still needed
it. Perhaps the best thing would be to log it AFTER the contest.
Either log it in your logger at 0001 UTC Monday (and refigure your
claimed score or note your claimed score without the extra QSO and
change your claimed score in the Cabrillo file). Or simply add it to
the Cabrillo log with a text editor using a non-contest date and it
would be ignored by the log checking software.
No matter how worthy the reason (and this is certainly a worthy reason),
we should not encourage the logging of stations not actually worked
during the contest period.
73,
John, K4BAI.
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