I would suggest contacting the Contest Desk at the ARRL and explain what
happened. Include a copy of your log, since they may not have ready access
to what you submitted for SS.
If this was an error (or more correctly, an oversight) with the log checking
software, and your QSO was actually valid, I would hope that you would get
credit for a Clean Sweep mug (presuming that they still have some in stock,
of course)
Good luck!
73, ron w3wn
-----Original Message-----
From: CQ-Contest [mailto:cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Wes
Plouff
Sent: Friday, June 19, 2015 6:35 PM
To: cq-contest@contesting.com
Subject: [CQ-Contest] 2014 SSB Sweepstakes Scoring Question
Hello to the CQ-Contest list! I have a question about a possible
one-time issue with ARRL Sweepstakes scoring. I'm wondering if others
have seen the same issue. I've sent an e-mail to contests@arrl.org with
no response after a week.
In the 2014 SSB Sweepstakes, I worked W1AW/1 in Rhode Island and W1AW/5
in Mississippi. W1AW/5 was my only contact in MS, and I thought I had
contacted all 83 sections. As a small-time contester, I was thrilled to
make a clean sweep.
Well, at my club banquet in June, when coffee mugs were handed out, it
turns out none of us who thought we had clean sweeps were credited by
the ARRL. So I looked up my logcheck file. It turns out that the log
checking software marked W1AW/5 as a dupe, thus invalidating my MS
multiplier and clean sweep. One of the other club members reported the
same had happened to him.
I'm not upset at this, my final score is still respectable, but I am
curious. This may have been a glitch because W1AW/portable operation
during the ARRL Centennial year was unique to 2014. I'm wondering: have
any other hams gotten into a situation where contacts with multiple
W1AW/?? callsigns were invalidated by the checker? Has anyone heard a
good explanation about why such contacts should or should not be counted
as dupes?
73,
Wes Plouff AC8JF
Royal Oak, MI
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