Art,
I never played in this years IARU, so have no dog in the fight.
I don't like cut numbers to begin with, but absolutely abhor cut numbers
in a mixed exchange contest (ie: the exchange cam be a number, an acronym,
an abbreviation etc)
Was it truly 11? AA? Who knows.
In 99.99% of cases I just copy what is sent and let the volunteers sort out
the log.
I try not to presume what someone "meant" to send.
In the recent RAC contest a funky W5 callsign sent me a serial # of 1153. I
knew it couldn't be right, but that's what he sent.
Later in the contest, he was sending 600+ serial numbers.
Whatever.
Mike VE9AA
This is for the hundreds of you who did not read my long post on
3830scores.com.
I had not studied the lists of HQ or IARU Officials mult's, and I don't
have them in my logging program. Some time after I worked an IARU
"AC" mult I worked a K4 Special Event station (1x1 call) who sent
"AA" for his zone. "OK," I thought, "if there are 'AC' officials, then
there could be AAs," and I logged it as AA. Then I glanced at the zone
map, and saw what's in zone 11, and changed the entry from AA to 11 (DURING
THE CONTEST!!).
ENNTD, or whatever.
73, Art K3KU
Mike, Coreen & Corey
Keswick Ridge, NB
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