Jim,
You are absolutely right. There is a good lesson here.
As I admitted in the NCJ writeup, I am one of them. I hadn't heard you
at all until 80m, when you called me once and we couldn't make the QSO
because I couldn't quite copy. But you called me later and after a number
of repeats, I got the call and number OK. You were in my database for
CQPWIN from prior Sprints, and I must have thought that I heard you send OH,
so I did just log that.
Bad operating on my part -- cost me the VT mult! But thanks for the Q.
73, Andy, AE6Y
----- Original Message -----
From: <jimk8mr@aol.com>
To: <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 6:26 AM
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Did I cheat in NAQP CW?
> It does pay to not rely too much on data bases, whether electronic or
> neuronic.
>
> In the September CW Sprint, five guys (out of my 120 qsos) logged me in
> Ohio. Unfortunately they lost the qso because I was really in Vermont.
>
> At least they did not lose a multiplier they thought they had. Just one
> that they didn't know they should have had.
>
>
> 73 - Jim K8MR
>
>
>
>
>
>
> In a message dated 1/13/2010 9:01:53 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> phriendly1@yahoo.com writes:
>
> Even that backfires Eric.
> As you mentioned with RTTY, in a recent contest I had someone send
> "Thanks
> Don GL xxxxx" Don?
>
> I would have worried about the validity of the QSO, but he was solid
> copy.
> Whatever lookup tool he was using had problems.
>
> My perspective on these kind of files is that they save me some typing
> from time to time, but I still need to copy what the other station is
> sending
> and get that right, regardless of what the file sez...
>
> Cheers,
> "Jules"
>
> You can call me Ray, you can call me Jay, but I sent Jules. ;o)
>
> Julius Fazekas
> N2WN
>
>
> --- On Tue, 1/12/10, Rick Lindquist, WW3DE <ww3de@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> From: Rick Lindquist, WW3DE <ww3de@comcast.net>
>> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Did I cheat in NAQP CW?
>> To: cq-contest@contesting.com
>> Date: Tuesday, January 12, 2010, 1:02 PM
>> Jul/Julius is correct.
>>
>> A practice that seems especially prevalent among non-US/VE
>> stations is to
>> set up the logging software to do an online lookup and
>> insert whatever
>> appears as your given name on your license record into
>> their reply. This
>> happens a lot on RTTY, within and outside of contests.
>>
>> So, when someone comes back and says something like,
>> "Thanks, Eric, for the
>> QSO," I know they never copied the name I sent, which would
>> be "Rick" (I
>> used "Dallas" in the NAQP CW in memory of W3PP). This
>> further suggests that
>> my signal probably sucks, but, hey, I already know that.
>>
>> Regarding post-contest log checking, I don't feel it's
>> "cheating" to
>> proofread all the entries looking for typos and the like
>> — entering "O" when
>> I really meant to enter "0," for example.
>>
>> Rick/Eric, WW3DE
>>
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