In a message dated 11/7/2008 10:33:25 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
n2icarrl@gmail.com writes:
If you look at your Log Checking Report from last year, you will see that
you
were penalized if you copied the serial number incorrectly. No free passes
for
off-by-one serial numbers. In the log checking process, the assumption is
that
the sending station logged the correct serial number, and the receiving
station
made the "error". Unfortunately, the Win-Test situation is doubly bad, in
that
the wrong station gets penalized. In the Win-Test situation, the sending
station
has incorrectly logged a different serial number from what was actually sent
by
Win-Test, but the receiving station gets penalized.
Unfortunately WinTest cloned CT for SS, which also has a poor method for
handling sent serial numbers. If there is nothing entered in the callsign
field, sending the exchange (F2) sends the number of the previous qso. So if
there is a pileup, you get a callsign at the end, send that call on the
paddle,
and press F2, the previous number goes out.
At K8AZ this weekend I was using WinTest, and did exactly that a number of
times. Sometimes I realized the error, fumbled around hitting ESC, pressing
any key to get something in the callsign field, and then pressing F2. When I
did, I often sounded like an idiot. For those times I wasn't paying
attention (hopefully not many), sorry!
The good news is that at my other three stations I used NA, which does it
right.
73 - Jim K8MR
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