Oh, it happens. Often it happens in the IARU, when the IARU Zone not the CQ
Zone is sent as part of the exchange, and some operators either don't know the
difference or just mess up.
Copy what was sent. If enough logs are submitted that shows, say, a California
station sending the zone for New Zealand or Greenland, the contest organizers
should recognize that the error (if any) is on the sending end, not the
receiving, and act accordingly.
73, ron w3wn
On Tuesday, September 26, 2023 at 09:36:49 PM EDT, K9MA
<k9ma@sdellington.us> wrote:
It's never happened to me, but if an operator sent zone 6, and then told
me he was in California, I would simple delete the contact. Likewise if
a G3 sent zone 27. Otherwise, I log what I hear.
73,
Scott K9MA
On 9/26/2023 2:18 PM, George Fremin III wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 25, 2023 at 10:04:41AM -0600, john wrote:
>> When you receive an obviously incorrect Zone (like the guy is from
>> CA and sends something other than 3), do you log what he sends, or
>> the correct Zone? You could be screwed either way, but logging the
>> correct Zone seems the lesser of the evils.
> You should log the zone that he is located in.
>
> Folks that say you should log what is sent are giving you bad advice.
>
> It is good advice not to use prefill databases or QRZ for this information.
> Never do that.
>
> But if N5KO calls me and send 59 6 I am going to ask him where he is
> located. Because if he is really in zone 6 - I clearly missed his
> callsign and he would be using somethig like XE1/N5KO or similar and I
> want to get that part correct. If I assume that the logging progmram
> will fill it in from his callsign of N5KO then it would likley put
> zone 4 in my log, and that might be correct but it might not. But if
> I ask him where he is he will tell me he is in California and I would
> now know to log him in zone 3. Putting the zone 6 he is sending in my log
> is not useful or correct if he is located in California.
>
> While in general I would log what folks send me I would never log
> things that I know are wrong. That is not what we are trying to do
> here - we are trying to log information that is correct.
>
> Think about it for a minute.
>
> If the contest exchange were signal reports and states would you sill
> log a 6 if that is what someone sends you instead of trying to get
> their state in the log?
>
> Many more examples could follow.
>
>
--
Scott K9MA
k9ma@sdellington.us
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