David A. Pruett wrote:
>
> One item which has been missed in the discussion of post-contest checking
> of your log concerns making sure all of the default information in your
> entry is correct. Actually, this is a pre-contest task.
>
> Well, the log for a certain well-known Carribean contest
> station indicates that he sent "59 CA" for every exchange, whereas in
> compliance with the contest rules we strongly suspect that he sent "59" and
> a serial number.
...
Wonder who that could have been? Actually, I figured ARRL would get a
lot of logs with errors like that. I was using CT, set up for the 10m
contest on the DX side, and set up correctly (within the CT framework)
as best I could tell. It wasn't until after the contest, when I
generated the ARRL format file, that I saw it was dumping that "599 CA"
into the sent field. (This obviously came from the default
configuration file, where I have CQP as the default contest.) I figured
this was an error on CT's part, and nothing I could do about it at that
point. However, each line does still have the serial number in it, so I
didn't worry too much about it and sent the log in anyway. I thought I
even attached a note to the submittal to explain this. Here are 5 lines
from my log to show what I mean:
10 SSB 13/12/98 2353 3683 LU5FB 59 CA 59 982 2 0
10 SSB 13/12/98 2353 3684 LU6DTS 59 CA 59 131 2 0
10 SSB 13/12/98 2354 3685 PY1OL 59 CA 59 3 2 0
10 SSB 13/12/98 2355 3686 LU3HL 59 CA 59 399 0 0
10 SSB 13/12/98 2355 3687 LW1DIP 59 CA 59 223 2 0
The serial number is after the time stamp, instead of being in the field
where it should have been. Now that I realize how much computer
analysis is going into checking the logs, I realize I should have
written a filter to put those serial numbers over into the correct
field. Clearly it will cause the log checkers grief to have to access
the serial number where it is. But I would hope this is not the basis
for log disqualification. That seems more than a little severe to me.
73,
Bruce, ZF2NT
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