[CQ-Contest] It's SV, not SCV!

[n6tr at teleport.com]

> An interesting note...Tree also included a new section in the error 
> report, where OTHERs miscopied MY exchange.  They lost the QSO and I did 
> not.  There were 191 such "other station errors" out of my 2057 raw QSO 
> total.  And a VAST MAJORITY of those stations put down my section as 
> "SCV" when in fact I am in "SV" (Sacramento Valley).  I have long 
> suspected people don't know the difference and have tried to say things 
> like "Sacramento Valley, that's "sugar victor"".  But that hasn't seemed 
> to make the difference...and now that I know I don't get penalized for 
> other's errors, I am probably just wasting my own time.

I think "sugar victor" would be the best one to use.  Sacramento
Valley has a C in it.

If (and this is a big IF) we ever got to the point of removing
QSOs from both logs - being in Sacramento Valley, San Francisco,
South Florida, Oregon or Orange sections would be a real handicap.

Tree


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>From Guy Olinger, K2AV" <k2av at qsl.net  Sun Apr 25 02:47:53 1999
From: Guy Olinger, K2AV" <k2av at qsl.net (Guy Olinger, K2AV)
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1999 21:47:53 -0400
Subject: [CQ-Contest] It's SV, not SCV!
Message-ID: <00a201be8ebd$a2db5980$60b7fea9 at mahopac>



+AD4-
+AD4-I think +ACI-sugar victor+ACI- would be the best one to use.  Sacramento
+AD4-Valley has a C in it.
+AD4-
+AD4-If (and this is a big IF) we ever got to the point of removing
+AD4-QSOs from both logs - being in Sacramento Valley, San Francisco,
+AD4-South Florida, Oregon or Orange sections would be a real handicap.
+AD4-
+AD4-Tree


I think that the removal of the qso's, the discussion, etc, will make it
into the realms of contest tips along with what band to be on, etc.

Like the note I put over the MP in the SSB SS:

SCV is SANTA CLARA VALLEY, STUPID+ACEAIQAh-

Many thanks to all those enlightened souls who say Sugar Victor, from me of
the late contest brain sugar and oxygen deprivation stupor, unable to count
the number of times I hit the delete key in a row, etc, etc.

73, y'all






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