This is getting Crazy!
What did sponsors do when it was all paper logs and dupe sheets, and
terrible penmanship many of us have on a non rushed day never mind
trying to log the contact, up date the dupe sheet, and send with at best
a keyer in the days when we did not even have a memory keyer yet/
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On 5/23/2015 10:18 PM, Gary K9GS wrote:
So..if I'm running on 20M and work WC1M on CW. Then after hitting
enter and logging the QSO I notice I typed W1CM in error ( I am a
really crappy typist ) I should not be able to correct my typo? Are
we measuring typing skills now?
I guess my recording would verify that I copied, sent and worked WC1M
correctly.
On 5/23/2015 3:15 PM, Dick Green WC1M wrote:
Here is the proposed wording:
Correction of logged call signs and exchanges after a QSO is
complete – by
using use of any database, recordings, email or other methods of
confirming
QSOs – is not allowed.
I don't see how that prohibits post-contest correction of typos and
the like.
73 jeff wk6i
Because "other methods" is so broad as to prevent you from looking at
a call, realizing you got it wrong (say, based on experience or a
list of active calls you saw before the contest) and changing it.
Even a nanosecond after you hit Enter.
As worded, the change prohibits any editing of the log. The
additional rule under Logging also prohibits most editing of the log,
but it's more rational: what you log must match what you sent and
received. This allows you to correct typos, provided the log matches
what was sent and received (as, for example, recorded by you or the
committee.)
But the new wording in IX.9 eliminates the ability to correct typos,
resulting in a potential penalty for busted copy and/or breaking the
logging rule. In my opinion, there's no need for this change because
the "log must match what was sent and received" standard is the
correct one, and the previous wording of IX.9 prohibited any
alteration of the log after the contest. If you sent and received
everything correctly, but made a typo in your log, you could correct
it during the contest in order to comply with the logging rule.
73, Dick WC1M
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