Requiring K5NZ to enter M/M because of a couple of band-change mistakes is
ridiculous. Disqualify the Q's made during the illegal band change from NZ's
log and count them as valid in the other stations' logs. This is not a
legislated area, so the log checkers have discretion. I hope they do the right
thing. This is a ham radio activity being conducted for the benefit of the
participants, not a punitive bureaucratic process being conducted to trap the
unwary. ... I think.
/Rick N6XI
Tree N6TR wrote:
> K5NZ writes:
>
> > Keeping up with the 6 band change rule for ARRL M/S is a mess. Why do we
> not
> > have a feature in TR to help keep up with this? We had a 10 min clock and
> it
> > worked great? Is this too hard to add? We made 2 mistakes this weekend
> and
> > I asked ARRL how I could remove those QSO's so not to hurt the station we
> > worked. Now they say we have to be M/M for 2 mistakes. BS anyone else
> would
> > just wipe the QSO's and send in the log, happens all the time.
>
> I think the first sentence answers the question asked in the second sentence
> better than I can.
>
> While I haven't tried to put a specific feature in to deal with the 10 minute
> rule, I did try doing off time once or twice. I gave up and took it out.
>
> Whenever I have thought about putting something like this in, I end up
> drowning
> in all of the special cases that come up. I have done this enough times, that
> I try to refrain from thinking about them.
>
> This is also an interesting case - since I am also the one doing the log
> checking
> with the software. Special cases like this are impossible to deal with. I
> can't
> "not count these two QSOs in one log, but make sure they don't count as NILs
> in
> the other logs" without a lot of manual work - and prone to errors.
>
> There are no easy answers. I can look into adding some kind of feature to
> make
> management of the 10 minute rule easier - but I can't guarantee that the same
> thing won't happen again.
>
> You have probably put yourself at a disadvantage by trying to do the right
> thing.
>
> Tree
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