A couple situations came up during IARU that caused me to stop and
think.
Case 1: The Busted Call
While on 20 SSB, the other operator here in our M/S is calling HA0XXX
(not even the correct country). After many repeats of the call, we
finally pass exchanges. HA0XXX then comes back saying "KK7Germany
Radio, thank you. HA0XXX contest". Now, this is obviously a busted
call. So we call again and again, and never get through again.
What to do? We decided, that since the 2-way information was not passed
and logged correctly, that we would not log the station. Now, if HA0XXX
has logged KK7GR, are they then going to get points for that? Or would
the best approach be to log it, but make it 0 points and a note to the
log checker that it was busted?
Case 2: No ears
While running on 40 CW, I had an interesting little quandry. (again,
calls changed to protect the innocent/guilty). N6XX calls me. I send
the exchange, and receive a TU 5NN 6 back. Done. Later, I come across
N6YY, whom the computer says I haven't worked. I call, and get back
KK7GW QSO. Hmmm...Did N6YY call me and I logged
him as N6XX? This happened more than once...in fact very few ops
corrected their call when I sent it wrong...then I asked for it when I
wasn't sure, and those same ops gave me a different call than what I
sent.
Then there's K5ZD, who called me at 1 AM local as I was in sleep
deprivation mode. I thought I'd heard KH7D, and sent that, and he
corrected it without sending the exchange. Then I thought I heard him
send K7ZD, and again, he corrected it without sending the exchange.
It finally clicked that it was K5ZD, and he sent the exchange. Thank
you Randy, for making sure that I get it right, and sorry that it took
so long.
Just my thoughts on what was a fun weekend.
73
David Jones, KK7GW
kk7gw@hotmail.com
Trustee for the Juanita Contesting Club-KD7BWU
jcontesting@hotmail.com
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