[CQ-Contest] CW SS log checking

[Pete Smith]

At 01:06 PM 4/18/98 -0600, Matt--K7BG wrote:
>Congrats
>to VE7CC and VE4VV with NO QSO's lost. As you can see low power
>sweepstakers are more accurate than their high powered counterparts.

Hah!  Once again, for the 37th year, I had no QSOs deducted.

But seriously, folks... back before I broke 100K in SS for the first time,
I assumed that was the milestone when checking would begin.  Then 125K, 140
K, and last year 165K, and I have yet to have a single QSO deducted.  

Having just winced over my CQWWCW U+D report, I KNOW there are dud QSOs in
my SS log.  I finished no higher relatively in CQWW than in SS.  It looks
like, at most, the ARRL checked no more than about 125 SS logs.  How do I
know that? -- I won my section, and evidently wasn't checked.  Looks to me
as if, unless you made the regional top 5 boxes, they took your log on faith.

Maybe this is the trade-off for quicker result publication, or maybe the
ARRL brings fewer hands to the task than CQ does, but it does make me uneasy.

73, Pete Smith N4ZR
n4zr at contesting.com 

"That's WEST Virginia.  Thanks and 73"


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