This DOES get me to wondering,
How do contest sponsors handle this?
Something Blatant obvious wrong as the CQ vs ITU zone number thing,,
If I log what is sent 07, even tho it is clearly wrong, do I get the QSO?
Or if I log what he is, not what he sent, do I get the QSO.
Now one step further, in the IARU HF July contest. I wonder how many get
busted when working me.
Most logging programs me being a WB9 station automatically place me in
Zone, 8.
But I am one of the few 9 Landers west of the 90 deg line placing me in 07.
So I send 07 because it IS where I am. Now, if someone logs me as 08,
do the contest sponsors ding them as not a good contact? Since most
programs think I should be in 08.
Joe WB9SBD
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On 9/26/2016 11:49 PM, kzerohb@gmail.com wrote:
On another online venue a fellow held the opinion that when someone sends an
inaccurate element of the contest exchange (ie., the wrong Zone for his
location in CQWW), that a contest operator should record the correct Zone, NOT
the Zone that was sent to him.
I certainly would query the sender. For example, if a station in Iowa sent Zone “7” in CQWW
(his IARU zone) instead of Zone “4” (his CQ Zone), but if he confirmed Zone 7, then I feel
that I am obligated to log what he sent.
After all, isn’t contesting all about our skill at accurately copying and
precisely logging what was sent to us?
If that isn’t true, then why not just exchange callsigns and let our computers
fill in the blanks?
“What year was I licensed in? Damn, I forgot again. I’ll make up a number and you
never mind what I sent, just let N1MM fill in the blank.”
73, de Hans, KØHB
"Just a boy and his radio"™
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