(Note that I have, again, changed the subject when the thread branches -- or
should I say "frays"?)
Rex asks about the case where he mis-entered the QSO data, and could not get it
fixed.
1. Should I delete the Q ? He looses points and has a pentalty for NIL .
2 Should I post contest try to contact him and correct my log or
3 Should I try to contact him and advise that he is no longer in my L0g
prior to his submitting his log ??
My answer: No.
#2 is clearly out. Once you have gotten beyond where you can fix it with data
you collected during the Contest, it's too late to fix it. (Some people will
argue, reasonably, that fixing "obvious typo's" is not allowed after
theContest; you just have to leave K09HB in your log. But that's a different
question.)
#1 is clearly not fair.
#3 is also not fair -- why should he lose points for your mistake?
IMHO, the proper thing to do is to accept that you are going to get a busted
QSO. Leave it in the log. At some point, "copying" the correct info has to
include getting it from your ears into the logging medium. (ATV, RTTY, and
other machine copy types need not remind me that not all QSOs require ears.)
A slightly different case: In SS SSB I worked a nice multiplier, and shortly
afterwards I decided that I had probably blown part of the data. So, much
later in the contest, when things were slow, I worked him again. I explained
that I thought I had data wrong in the first QSO, so please dupe me so I won't
lose the mult. He said, "OK. We'll delete the first QSO." I think that fixing
the log after the Contest is OK in that case.
73, Art K3KU
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