[CQ-Contest] Post-contest review

[Dick Dievendorff]

QSOs aren't complete unless certain information is exchanged and logged.

However, that doesn't mean a log entry is equal to a QSO.

You may exhange information with other stations (make QSOs) only during the
hours specified for the contest.  However, it does not follow (from the
rules) that you must make log entries only during the contest period.

Taking this to the extreme, the QSOs can be made during the contest, and you
can remember everything (or use whatever shorthand you prefer) and write the
log entirely after the contest.

This permits, for example, someone whose handwriting is legible only to
themselves to scribble whatever notes they wish during the contest, and then
prepare a log for submission entirely afer the contest.

Now given all that, my personal opinion (which is more restrictive than the
rules) is that you shouldn't consult outside sources for callsigns.  But
it's common practice to have prepared a list of callsigns of announced
expeditions.  I prefer to operate the contest with a more restrictive set of
practices than the rules generally permit.  But I can't impose that on you.

73 de Dick, K6KR






----- Original Message -----
From: "Kelly Taylor" <ve4xt at mb.sympatico.ca>
To: <cq-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 1:49 AM
Subject: [CQ-Contest] Post-contest review


>
> Hello all,
>
> I read with interest the question on whether any particular rule
> forbids post-contest log-fixing.
>
> (Before anybody gets their dander in a tizzy, I'm on the side of those
> who believe fixing obvious, honest typos is OK.)
>
> My observation is this: the ARRL General Rules for HF contests state
> that only QSOs where each station has sent, received and logged
> callsign and exchange info correctly and acknowledged same can be
> considered complete.
>
> Then, specific contests' rules spell out the times during which QSOs
> can be completed.
>
> So if (in an ARRL contest) you can only complete a QSO by logging it
> correctly, and you can only complete QSOs during the contest period,
> and you can only exchange information as spelled out in the rules
> (say, using CW on the non-WARC bands from 3.5 to 30 MHz), doesn't the
> cumulative effect of those rules prohibit activities such as comparing
> log data with friends and fixing discrepancies, verifying section
> information in callbooks or using the Internet to see if that's guy's
> check really was 35?
>
> That said, this ain't typing class. If you work VE4XT and type in
> VE45XT 'cuz your fingers are too fat, or screw up by putting a sp ace
> in th e wro ng spo t (VE4XT5 99 MB), surely it must be reasonable, if
> not expected, to correct that.
>
> Also, isn't it dangerous to assume that because the info you logged
> doesn't jibe with what you see elsewhere, it must mean you made an
> error? I mean, you can look up my info and see that my SS check should
> be 82. Yet if I let a guest operate, maybe he uses his own check.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Kelly
> ve4xt
>
>
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