[CQ-Contest] Log checking & Penalties

[v31jp at logical123.net]

I am glad to see the improved log checking. I know, in
the past, I have lost a few Q's due to miscopied calls.
Not a problem. I have my logging software and if I
mistype a call or miscopy a call, "I" made an error.
When I am CQing, my computer sends the call I have
typed into my computer. If it's wrong and the other
operator doesn't correct me, we both should lose. In
S&P, it's all up to me, propagation and anything else
that might make me copy or type a call wrong, and it
happens.

I do not log calls that I have a question about, but I
and my system have made errors. I look forward to seeing
my errors and to learn from them. I have picked up some
darn good hints in the previous thread.

I do question penalties vs. loss of contact for busted
calls. I would think that there should be a threshold
for assessing penalties. Above a certain percentage of
errors, penalties should be assessed, but in the lower
levels, only the loss of a contact.

I am curious about a couple areas in log checking. How
are paper logs handled? What percentage of received logs
are still submitted on paper? I have long since dispensed
with paper logs, but I know that many have not made the
move to computerization of their stations. Today, it is
easier and cheaper then ever before, but not all hams are
inclined or computer literate enough.

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>From Dick Green" <dick.green at valley.net  Thu May  6 05:40:30 1999
From: Dick Green" <dick.green at valley.net (Dick Green)
Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 00:40:30 -0400
Subject: [CQ-Contest] 2RSO Operating Position Layout
Message-ID: <011a01be977a$e7fbdd80$6ea473c6 at tpk.net>


I think #5, PC monitor centered and above the 2 radios, will work best if
the radios are elevated a couple of inches. That way, the keyboard won't
block any parts of the radios. However, you still might find it
uncomfortable reaching over the keyboard to adjust the radios. I find it
very difficult to tune unless I can rest my forearm on something, and the
keyboard gets in the way of that.

I have mine in configuration #2 and like it a lot. It doesn't take a lot of
extra time to reach to the right or the left. I don't do a whole lot of
fiddling with the radios anyway. Mostly it's just the tuning knob on the S&P
rig and the two volume pots. I used to have an ideal situation when I was
running a TS950SDX to the left and an FT-990 to the right. The two volume
pots ended up right next to the monitor, in easy reach. Now the '950 has
been replaced with an FT-1000mp, so its volume pot is further away. I'm
considering building a volume/balance pot into the headphone line and laying
on the desk in easy reach of the keyboard.

Hope this helps.

73, Dick, WC1M



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