Yuri is right, it happens.
Tree is right, ain't nuttin you can do 'bout it.
As Yuri implies the NIL rule often discriminates against SOs to the benefit
of MS and MMs. I had a NIL in CQWW a couple of years back from an "offshore"
MM big gun. As it happens I'd just started using WL, and was recording the
whole contest onto CD. I was therefore later able to go back and listen to
the "NIL", it was real! So what happened ? My best guess is that the (
probably tired) op. had doubts as to whether he had my callsign correct (
NJW, NWJ? trust me,it happens all the time) and to avoid the possibility of
a busted callsign penalty just scrubbed me, as he already had the GW mult.
Do I blame him, of course not, it's just an unforeseen consequence of the 3x
penalty rule in that contest.
So, the playing field ain't level, life ain't fair. My SO2R is no match for
a decent antenna system, but it's summat I can do, so I do it. Yuri, I feel
for you, I've been where you are; the righteous often get a raw deal, but I
won't make myself a victim or fret that I am a hostage to fortune, that's
just the way it is.
73
Clive
GW3NJW
-----Original Message-----
From: cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com
[mailto:cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com]On Behalf Of Tree
Sent: 27 July 2006 21:45
To: cq-contest@contesting.com
Subject: [CQ-Contest] K3BU and multi-single
Yuri writes:
> Operated QRP in CQ WW on 160. Typically I spent half an hour to make QSO,
> waiting for pileup to die. I make few QSOs and I remember each of them.
Then I
> get UBN report and I see that that I am not in the log of EI7M and PJ4M (?
the
> big M/S anyway), I know I worked them, but they "don't have" me in the
log.
> Could it be that I was "inconvenient QSO" due to their "creative logging"
> bending M/S rule and they decided to cross me out (what's another W/K) in
order
> not to violate the 10 min whatever rule? Email to log checkers was no
avail,
> "take it with perpetrators". The point is that I get penalized for
perfectly
> good QSO, while "clever" M/S gets away with cheating.
Both EI7M (on CW) and PJ4W (on SSB) have QSOs on 160 meters before and after
the time of the "QSO" as shown in the K3BU log. It looks like the
inconvenient
truth is that these NILs had nothing to do with a M/S rule violation.
73 Tree N6TR
tree@kkn.net
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