"I find this rule stupifying. Why do we bother sending the Zone at all?
This reinforces what I've long felt about CQWW -- that it's the dumbest
contest going. ALL you have to copy is the other station's call -- the
rest of it is auto-filled from call history files and country files! 73,
Jim K9YC"
I'm not a lawyer and I do not play one on telly, but the CQ FAQ seems clear
to me:
Q: "I work a station and they do not know their CQ zone or they give me a
serial number, what should I put in the log?
"Log the zone based on their location."
We "bother sending the Zone at all" because people operate "out of their
Zone." Or their mind.
OTOH -- sending 599 or 59 in every exchange: now, that's dumb.
K1TN
On Wed,9/28/2016 12:12 AM, Maarten van R wrote:
Like David said, CQWW says you should log the correct zone based on the
location, not what was send. Same thing with cut numbers used for CQ zone
numbers.
See:http://www.cqww.com/rules_faq.htm
This contradicts with the "log what was send" rule but it actually seems
fairly logical. If the other station doesn't submit his log, the
logchecker
can not possibly know what was actually send but it does know what the
correct zone number should be based on the location of the station.
As others have asked, what happens when the other op does submit his log
with the wrong number? Then the log checker does know what was send over
the air.
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