#1 is sort-of serious. #2 is in the angels-on-the-head-of-a-pin
category. #3 is mostly tongue sort-of in cheek.
1. If it's OK to use "call history" files, is it OK to look up states in
the (on-line) callbook. Why should one list of historical data be OK, and
the other not? (I did NOT look up anybody's state or name in the 'Test.)
2. I worked a guy whose state I know. And he did indeed send that state
(to me AND to the guy who beat me out on the first call). When I worked him
on the second band, I knew his state would be a mult. When I typed in his
call the logging software filled in the report for me, but did not indicate
it was a new mult. Hmmm? Oh! It says "MD" I must have entered his state
as MD the first time. I guess I was listening to my report being sent while
I typed in his report, and unconsciously typed in my own state. No
problem. I rolled back in the log and fixed his state in the first QSO, and
continued working the 'Test.
Now, my own opinion is that anything I fix DURING the contest is OK -- but I
had been considering errors that I recognized right away. In this case, I
would not have noticed the error except for the fill-in feature of the
logging software.
3. Late in the 'Test I made a desperate jump to 40M (which was already
pretty dead by the time I started the 'Test). I heard somebody tuning up,
and a well-know station in GA called CQ NA. I listened for a moment, and
heard him get no answers. So I called him by name, and said "You are vy
loud but nobody is here. GL"
Did I make him multi-op? (He did keep calling CQ.) Should we never give
ANY info that might help the other guy, including "VY LOUD" or (as my buddy
N6XI once said to me) "P**S WEAK". BTW, I reserve the right to tell N3AM he
is very loud. I think that from the top of his tower John can see my
antenna ...if he looks down.
73, Art K3KU
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