Interesting comments Ken. I am not sure I would up for the task of
going back and listening to it again. HI!
Mike W0MU
J6/W0MU November 21 - December 1 2011 CQ WW DX CW
W0MU-1 CC Cluster w0mu.net
On 10/7/2011 12:31 PM, Ken Widelitz wrote:
> I've just completed listening to my recording of the errors in my log
> flagged by the CQWW CW 2010 Log Checking Report. My conclusion is the LCR
> software and reviewers do a great job.
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> Not surprisingly, of the 92 errors flagged as bad calls, only one was
> actually copied correctly. I had K4BX in my log. The LCR said the correct
> call was K2AX. K4BX didn't submit a log. K2AX had me in his log with a 2
> minute difference. I didn't have K2AX in my log on that band. I don't see
> any way to avoid that type of bad flag.
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> I asked for a fill on 7 of those bad calls, and still got it wrong. 15 times
> the other station corrected me, but I didn't correct my log and still got it
> wrong. What I found surprising was the number of stations that didn't bother
> to correct me.
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> Many of the busted calls were on S / H, D / B and U / V characters. Now if
> only I can improve on those pairs. Only one was an obvious typo with 4
> characters in the suffix
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> Of the 25 NILs, 13 sounded like good QSOs on the recording. A few of those
> NILs even confirmed a 2nd time. No idea how to avoid those. Of the
> remaining, most were NILs because I hit the TU VY2TT key too fast and the
> QSO partner didn't hear me confirm. I know I'm twitchy on the TU key and
> have to be slow it down. On just one of the NILs did I log the call when
> there was clearly no QSO. I had a real lid moment on the 2nd radio and
> started CQing after calling a station that didn't come back to me.
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> What I did find surprising was of the 28 uniques, 14 were actually good
> calls. I've always thought about 90% of uniques are copy errors that can't
> be confirmed as errors.
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> Percentagewise, not surprisingly, Sunday late afternoon and evening had more
> errors and lid moments.
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> Nothing like listening to all your lid moments to put a dent in the ego.
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> 73, Ken, K6LA / VY2TT
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