> Why paper notes?
Why stop a run to edit a typo?
What if the logging program messes up?
> IMHO get it right in the log before you continue. This can't take very
> long.
It can take 2-3 minutes or more for a reboot.
> My experience with this is I usually lost the note or still didn't get it
> right. Also
> it's a waste of time during a real run.......
Not really.
> Anything after the contest today is considered massaging.
Not really, not when it is merging a paper and computer log.
> Oh if your in a run you may not want to take the time as you could stand
> to
> loose freq.
> Maybe better just to take the QSO as loss and carry on with the run
> however
> enough
> busted calls and report could get you heavily penalized in the end.
You are calling it busted calls, it is not. It can be a computer induced
problem, software, bumping the keyboard, or anything. Just jot the error on
paper and merge it later.
For example in one contest my computer logging program, I was using Wintest,
kept locking up. The only cure was a reboot. When the computer crashed I
paper logged. I had a mixture of about 25% paper and 75% computer. I don't
feel the least bit bad or guilty about merging the logs, and I don't think
any rational reasonable person would. While I did most of it during off
times, I probably did some after it ended.
This is far different than correcting calls with external lookups.
73 Tom
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