[CQ-Contest] Assisted or Not Assisted?

[Bill Coleman]

On 11/14/00 7:42 PM, K0HB - Hans at K0HB at USWEST.NET wrote:

>My UBN reports lately suggest that I'm not very good at it,
>but I thought the idea of radiosport (contesting) was to copy the
>exchange off the air, not from some database crib sheet?

Exactly my point. The callsign database cannot replace copying callsigns 
off the air. To attempt to do so invites disaster when the log checkers 
have at it.

>"Super Check Partial" and other program assistance such as
>fill-in-the-zone in CQWW is still outside assistance.

You can fill in the zone after the contest is over, if you like. (oh no, 
not another post-contest editing thread....)

>The
>skilled contester with a "keen memory" *should* have an advantage
>over a lesser skilled or lesser experienced sportsman!  Isn't
>that why we call it a "contest"?

Yup.

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Here's my point -- the contest database cannot replace copying the 
callsign off the air, and therefore is not assistance.




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>From Ben Coleman" <oloryn at mindspring.com  Thu Nov 16 01:45:19 2000
From: Ben Coleman" <oloryn at mindspring.com (Ben Coleman)
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:45:19 -0500
Subject: [CQ-Contest] Assisted or Not Assisted?
Message-ID: <200011160145.eAG1jIA14824 at erebor.home>


On Wed, 15 Nov 2000 00:42:53 -0000, K0HB - Hans wrote:

>"Super Check Partial" and other program assistance such as
>fill-in-the-zone in CQWW is still outside assistance.

OTOH, use of these as crutches can be as detrimental as they are
helpful.  Anyone who accepted the fill-in-the-zone for my QSOs in CQWW
ended up with a busted QSO - my call seems to indicate zone 04, but I
moved and kept my old call and am actually in zone 05.  Ditto for
contacts with Alabama stations, as 4-land calls are typically filled in
as zone 05, but Alabama is in zone 04.

The operator who over-relies on "Super Check Partial" and doesn't
verify that the call he's logging is the one he's hearing is also going
to end up with busted QSOs.

Ben
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