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Re: [CQ-Contest] What's the difference...

To: Maarten van Rossum <pd2r.maarten@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] What's the difference...
From: Charles Harpole <hs0zcw@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 07:32:46 +0700
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Attempt at satire was not directed at KU....it was an effort to again
object to contest station automation.  73, Charly

On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 2:19 PM, Maarten van Rossum <pd2r.maarten@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Charly,
>
> Did you have vinigar this morning for breakfast?
> The guy just asked a honest question so give the man a break.
>
> 73, Maarten PD2R
>
>
> Op maandag 12 januari 2015 heeft Charles Harpole <hs0zcw@gmail.com> het
> volgende geschreven:
>
>> Yep, change everything to "correct" and clean your log.  Join the Big
>> Boys'
>> methods, and use a whole club's ops logs to help, too.
>> I say, cheat all you can... it feels so good by the victory fire and
>> around
>> the beers bragging.
>>
>> Heck, get a computer program that listens to your contact, compares him to
>> a file full of all data, and that automatically plugs in ALL data for you.
>> In fact, take the wife to a nice dinner as your station fills up your log
>> for you.
>>
>> Automate everything !   Then "enjoy" sitting around and watching it all
>> work for you.  73, Charly
>>
>> On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 11:17 PM, Art Boyars <artboyars@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > ... between using a "call history file" to store previous data (e.g.,
>> name,
>> > section, etc.)...
>> >
>> > ...and looking it up on-line real time (or, for us OTs using the
>> Callbook)?
>> >
>> > Example: during NAQP CW last night, I looked up "Tom" to see what city
>> he
>> > was in.  (I like to see where people are in states of personal interest;
>> > single-radio op's have time for this.)  I saw that his license name is
>> > Timothy.
>> >
>> > Of course, I did NOT change my log (I do not cheat, and, heck, maybe he
>> > really did send "Tom"), but...
>> >
>> > ...would it have been be ethical to change it (right then) if I had a
>> call
>> > history file that had hinted that his name was Tim, and I used that
>> info to
>> > guess that "Tim" is correct?
>> >
>> > If yes, would it have been ethical to change the name (DURING the
>> contest)
>> > based on Callbook info?
>> >
>> > (Never mind the QSOs I had by hearing enough of a whisper of the other
>> > station for my logging software to fill in the report from other-band
>> QSOs
>> > .)
>> >
>> > 73, Art K3KU
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>> --
>> Charly, HS0ZCW
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>


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