[CQ-Contest] Exisiting Penalty System is Working Very Well

[Ken Widelitz]

Hi Rich,

Recording the contest allows the operator to listen to the UBN QSOs and
learn about how mistakes are made. I've found the UBN reports to be about
95% accurate recently with the improved software. In fact, I've used my
recordings to help Tree improve his software by QCing his preliminary UBN
for me against the recordings.

What have I learned? I mess up on JS# / JH# so I ask for lots of fills when
called by JS's. I make more mistakes on the 2nd radio so I listen to confirm
sent info on 2nd radio QSOs. If someone comes back to K6NA in the sprint,
they probably mean K6NA and not K6LA so I pay very close attention in that
situation.

I also use the tapes to "warmup" before a contest. I like to listen to
sections I have noted as having done something particularly well so as to
raise my confidence before a contest.

Recording the contest does NOT mean you are cheating.

73, Ken, K6LA, Ken Six Los Angeles

K6LA at GTEMAIL.NET


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>From Steve, IK4WMH" <topdxer at tin.it  Thu Sep  7 08:54:01 2000
From: Steve, IK4WMH" <topdxer at tin.it (Steve, IK4WMH)
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 08:54:01 +0100
Subject: Re[2]: [CQ-Contest] Exisiting Penalty System is Working Very Well
Message-ID: <545979601.20000907085401 at tin.it>


Hello Zoli,

Wednesday, September 06, 2000, 6:55:47 PM, you wrote:

ZPH> If you see that an unassisted runs over 100 per hour and works the
ZPH> new mults within 5 minutes they show up in the cluster, you can be sure that
ZPH> unassisted station is actually assisted.

That is not enough.

When I change bands and go searching I usually start at one end of the
band and move up or down and I believe I'm not the only one cause I
often hear stations doing the same, in fact sometimes I found myself
following the same S&P station for the whole band.

Many stations have the automatic spotting feature on, and if I was
patterning on such a spotting machine it would seem that I was simply
using the cluster facility.


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Ciao.
          Steve, IK4WMH
          mailto:topdxer at tin.it



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