Just my opinion:
I am not going to ask anybody to change his callsign exchange to suit
some contest requirement that he didn't have a part in making.
I am also not going to worry about combing through my log files to
detect possible anomalies like the one you describe.
I don't think it is right to change a callsign - whatever the guy
sent is it, as long as I didn't mis-copy it.
If the contest committee is concerned, they could keep a list of
calls+areas and do an automated correction on their end. Those robots
can be pretty smart.
Jerry W4UK
At 03:25 PM 1/27/2013, DickT-W0RAA wrote:
During the BARTG Sprint this weekend, I worked a friend, WL7RV,
who lives here in Colorado Springs. When he sent his call, Writelog
showed him in Alaska. (A mutual friend said the N1MM did the same
thing). Since I knew he was not in Alaska, I edited my Writelog entry
to WL7RV/0. It still showed him as Alaska. Knowing I had a credit for
a multiplier that wasn't actually a multiplier, I re-edited his call to
W0/WL7RV and it then showed up properly as in the United States and
not Alaska as a DX Multiplier.
In any contest that he may enter, does he need to sign hic call as W0/WL7RV
so that he shows up as in the lower 48 and not as a station in Alaska?
I would assume that several people would perhaps like to know how to
handle this situation. Since I knew that Bob was NOT in Alaska, I felt that
I needed to correct it so I wouldn't be claiming a multiplier that was not a
true mult.
Any comments from the contesters out there? How can this be corrected so
that he does not have to preface his call with a "W0/"? Somebody has got to
have run into this before and may know how to correct it.
Dick - W0RAA
My memory isn't as good as it used to be.
Also, my memory isn't as good as it used to be.
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