[CQ-Contest] Dinged Good QSOs

[Bill Coleman]

Earlier, I wrote:

>Yes, I remember putting in a 20 Q log for the CQWW CW a few years
>back,
>only to have my score reduced by 60% -- primarily due to stateside
>stations who didn't bother to log my QSO. ARGH!

To show you how thorough contest judges can be, Dick, N6AA looked up my 
scores in question. He pulled up the UBN report for my 1997 CQWW CW 
effort, and found that it was reduced 60% because I missed copying the 
callsigns of two double mults.

Clearly, I've confused some contest entries. I believe my frustration 
over stateside stations not logging my QSO happened in WPX. And the score 
reduction resulting from that omission was considerably less than 60%. 
Subsequent WPX rule changes have eliminated any cause for a purposeful 
omission.

If I impugned the contest judges, my apologies. They are clearly much 
more on the ball than I am.



Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL        Mail: aa4lr at arrl.net
Quote: "Not within a thousand years will man ever fly!"
            -- Wilbur Wright, 1901


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