[CQ-Contest] ...the bottom line is VERY obvious

[DougKR2Q at aol.com]

In a message dated 9/13/00 10:54:52 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
k8cc at mediaone.net writes:

<< If he's sending the wrong stuff, WHAT ARE YOU 
 GONNA LOG?  If you log the VE9 in NB you really should lose the QSO because 
 the rules clearly state that you're to copy a SECTION not a PROVINCE. >>

Great comments!  But a bit surprising  (at least for me) to see it coming 
from one of the logging software giants.

The PROBLEM is that the logging programs do not allow you (the entrant) to 
distinguish between LOGGING WHAT WAS SENT and COUNTING WHAT IT SHOULD BE.  In 
CQWW (say SSB), if some CE (not to pick on CE) is poor at English, doesn't 
have the rules, but wants to participate, he may start out by sending 59001, 
59002, etc.  Those are not zones...but so what.  When I used to do paper 
logs, I could log 59001, but I would record the zone multiplier as 12....VERY 
EASY!  Just try that with CT, TR, NA, etc.

Why doesn't ANY logging software let you do that?

And while we're at it, you shouldn't always log what you copied.  If I hear  
ZD8Z working the boys but when he works me he sends ZD7Z (I know, this is 
totally fictitious), do you think I would log ZD7Z?  No way.  Not to 
contradict my 99.99% correct bud from K4 land, but sometimes you gotta use 
your smarts during the contest and if "the other guy screws up" you would be 
nuts to log exactly what was sent, knowing it was wrong.

de Doug KR2Q


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