K4JRB said:
> Wait a minute. If a station works CW or a single band in a contest but works
> a few friends on say 20 SSB then submits his log for say 80CW why should he
> submit the 20 SSB QSOs in the same log?
> I think that the station should send in a check log for 20SSB in any case.
> Are we getting away from the KISS concept??
By allowing for these qsos to be in the same log file, it actually makes it
easier for the station submitting the log. Isn't that simpler?
I did just this in the 10m contest. I entered as only CW, but at one point, I
spun the dial up to SSB to find my pal AA5NT who only operates SSB. We chatted
for a few minutes, and then had an official QSO on SSB - my only SSB qso.
Here's some of my Cabrillo file:
START-OF-LOG: 2.0
ARRL-SECTION: NTX
CALLSIGN: N5NJ
CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP 10M LOW CW
(And later on:)
...
QSO: 28006 CW 2003-12-14 1320 N5NJ 599 TX N5CHA 599 TX
QSO: 28005 CW 2003-12-14 1331 N5NJ 599 TX HK1HHX 599 553
QSO: 28022 CW 2003-12-14 1357 N5NJ 599 TX P40K 599 1833
QSO: 28455 PH 2003-12-14 1431 N5NJ 59 TX AA5NT 59 TX
QSO: 28017 CW 2003-12-14 1433 N5NJ 599 TX KR5V 599 TX
QSO: 28015 CW 2003-12-14 1901 N5NJ 599 TX VE7JKZ 599 BC
QSO: 28014 CW 2003-12-14 1901 N5NJ 599 TX N6RO 599 CA
QSO: 28009 CW 2003-12-14 1903 N5NJ 599 TX LT1F 599 2698
...
As you can see, AA5NT's SSB qso is in there with all the other CW Qsos and I
have entered this contest as CW only.
The log checking process will not count AA5NT's qso towards my score, but will
confirm AA5NT's qso that he claims with me. If I did not have his qso in my
log, he would get a NIL.
I think we all (especially those of use who know what it was like to do all
this with a pencil and paper) that things are different now, and people don't
look at the log entries and make those judegement calls that might have been
possible when it was a completely manual process.
The computer log processing system does not allow for more than one log to be
submitted for a single callsign. It recognizes the last log submitted as the
correct log.
73,
Bob N5NJ
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