[CQ-Contest] Relaxed log checking

[Marijan Miletic]

I've seen a fare share of contest logs in 35 years.  Latest batch of 150+
arrived for Slovenian Contest Club RTTY Championship held for the first time
last August.  They were in plain ASCII text, Excell, Word, Writelog, CT and
even in WF1B format.  Ray, WF1B kindly provided his RTTY program so we 
converted all the paper logs to electronic form.  Complete crosschecking was
done which produced a database of over 600 callsigns with year first licensed.
All the claimed scores were recalculated and many people profited from that.

I am not a big sportsman but I often hear that the contest should be decided
at the playing field and not at the green tables in the smoking rooms :-)

However, I am aware of extensive use of databases and I agree that guessing
should be discouraged.  But the penalty should not be tougher than the crime.

More info about S57AD approach to logchecking for EUHFC can be found at:
http://lea.hamradio.si/~scc.  Some of it would be applied to WRTC-2000.

73 de Mario, S56A, N1YU.


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>From Maurizio Panicara" <i4jmy at iol.it  Fri May  7 09:57:30 1999
From: Maurizio Panicara" <i4jmy at iol.it (Maurizio Panicara)
Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 10:57:30 +0200
Subject: [CQ-Contest] or disease or side effect
Message-ID: <001e01be9867$bd4c4be0$95490d97 at d9b0o1>


Post contest " repairing techniques " are the side effect of a medicine
whose benefits are too good not to use anyway.

Exactly at the opposite as someone recently claimed on this reflector, If
finally there wasn't the introduction of log checking and heavy penalties, I
and many other contesters, would already have given up with contesting some
years ago.
Until a contest has a merit list, the best way to promote partecipation it
is to make this list the closer possible to a result of good and bad skills.
My opinion is that Cq, ARRL and all the organizers who turned on this hand
did one of the best possible improvements for contesting and to their own
image.
Who doesn't like to be checked, or who aims to go back to the times when
winning was sometimes result of great fantasy and skin on the face, can
still operate the way he likes most. He should only avoid to send his log to
fix a problem that' only his problem.


73,
Mauri  I4JMY (one of IR4T)

E-mail: i4jmy at iol.it








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