I did some spot checking on NILs in last year's ARRL CW and last year's CQ WW
CW, since the % was higher than in past years. It does appear that a lot of the
NILs were calls worked during running vs. S&P - that does seem to be where the
increase came from.
I assume it is due to what N1UR cites - people jumping on a spot on my freq,
working me, logging something else. If it was just a busted spot, I assume they
would get a busted call vs. me getting a NIL - it has to be something else was
spotted on or near my freq, they worked me but hit enter logging the other call.
Doesn't seem like that big of an issue - that type of error should be fairly
uniform, at least across stations running and being spotted and IDing regularly
- should result in scores being reduced equally. If it actually does work to
penalize stations who don't ID very often (as well as log stuffing from the
callbook...) , so much the better.
73 John K3TN
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