Hi Bill: Yes it should not count even if you blew it. I've been at this almost
50 years so I go back to the time before computers. Over the years I've had
cards returned marked not in the log when I'm 110% sure I worked the guy. In
those days the excuse was "couldn't read my handwriting", today it is "I typed
it wrong". No matter what the excuse it is still not a match. The log is the
final determining authority and that is one of the reasons I'm so 'high' on
LOTW. Once we start post-editing logs whether they be contest or expeditions
then we have begun a slide down a slippery slope. If we begin questioning the
integrity of the log then contest wins and DXCC become meaningless. In the
modern age of cabrillo and LOTW if I get a contest certificate or DXCC it's
real, it has integrity because the logs match.
If it doesn't match it's not a contact.
73
MAL N7MAL
BULLHEAD CITY, AZ
http://www.ctaz.com/~suzyq/N7mal.htm
----- Original Message -----
From: Bill Turner
To: N7MAL ; k-zero-hb@earthlink.net ; CQ-Contest@contesting.com
Cc: rtnmi@sbcglobal.net
Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 14:15
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] e qsl
What counts as close? Two things are required, IMO:
1. I am convinced the QSO did take place (correct time, date, band and mode)
-and-
2. The mistake in copying the call was mine, and no fault of the other
station.
Do you really think the other station should be punished for MY error?
Doesn't seem right to me.
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Bill, W6WRT
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Original Message:
At 09:15 PM 5/2/2005, N7MAL wrote:
>The remarks made W6WRT & KE5CTY are so far out of line I can't believe I
>read them. W6WRT freely admits he sends out QSL cards even if they are
>just CLOSE. What counts as close, they get your mailing address correct?
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