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[CQ-Contest] Followup Re: Sweepstakes Scoring Rules for Dupes?

To: Bill N6MW <billsstuffn6mw@comcast.net>
Subject: [CQ-Contest] Followup Re: Sweepstakes Scoring Rules for Dupes?
From: K3ZJ David Siddall <davek3zj@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2022 06:59:18 -0400
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An additional thought: if your question derives from an actual case for a
submitted log, rather than a pure hypothetical, look at your Log Check
Report (LCR) for the SS in question.  It  will very clearly show how the
situation was handled.

73, Dave K3ZJ

On Tue, Jul 26, 2022 at 6:48 AM K3ZJ David Siddall <davek3zj@gmail.com>
wrote:

> I am not involved in log checking, but the answer seems clear in the SS
> rules themselves.  A QSO with a miscopied exchange is* removed* from the
> log without penalty. So if there is a dupe with the correct exchange, that
> "dupe" would become a valid QSO with full credit (since, with removal of
> the first QSO for an exchange error the second QSO no longer is a "dupe").
> Since the error was a mis-copied exchange with no penalty added, the second
> QSO would completely offset the points lost by the first QSO.  The
> pertinent part of the current SS rules state:
>
>  "Log Checking Penalties
>
> Logs are cross-checked using custom software and human judgment.
> LGCK.1. Duplicate contacts are removed with no additional scoring penalty.
> LGCK.2. Contacts with call sign errors ("Busted") or that are not found in
> the corresponding log ("NIL") are removed from the log and an additional
> scoring penalty of the QSO point value of that contact is assessed.
> LGCK.3. Contacts with an incorrectly received exchange are removed with no
> additional scoring penalty."
>
> 73, Dave K3ZJ
>
> On Mon, Jul 25, 2022 at 7:05 PM Bill N6MW <billsstuffn6mw@comcast.net>
> wrote:
>
>> The question is how are dupes in the SS treated in log checking. Aside
>> from the conventional wisdom of not removing your dupes since there is
>> no penalty, there remains some mystery. Assume have a dupe with a
>> station but one of the exchanges was not correctly copied by you -
>> either the first or second. If the first is incorrect is that counted
>> giving a penalty and the second ignored? Or the other way around? Or if
>> either is correct is the other ignored and no penalty?
>>
>> This question has been posed to the ARRl contest manager in several
>> forms in emails but no firm answer has been provided. Follow up
>> questions are no longer responded to.
>>
>> Does anyone know, with certainty, the answer? Perhaps a member of the
>> log checking crew knows?  N6MW
>>
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