In a message dated 4/26/99 8:12:27 AM Pacific Daylight Time, trey@kkn.net
writes:
<< It doesn't matter that the other guys sent his section as IC, or that
you *think* the other guy sent his section as IC because there was a
static crash when he sent his section. It's up to *you* have enough
savvy to understand that what you copied is nonsense ( >>
This problem is exacerbated even further in state QSO parties. Transcribing
county names into a log is clearly a matter of the receiving station
interrogating the sending station until the county name is confirmed. Then,
when computer logging, it is the responsibility of the receiving station to
translate the county name into the correct abbreviation, and, one the logging
program recognizes. This task is made more difficult because there are
different abbreviations in different logging programs. Within some, there are
different abbreviations in various revisions of the same logging program.
This was painfully apparent last weekend in the FQP. It will be even more of
an issue in the Texas QSO Party, with 256 counties/abbreviations, and I speak
Texan!
The obvious solution is to discontinue all phone contests.
Tom, K5RC
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