[CQ-Contest] YT6A's UBN experience

[VR2BrettGraham]

YT6A replies to "Don":

>I agree with you.
>
>My experience with UBN is very painful. I started to have very high UBN's
>in last two years, and trying to find out exact reasons for it, I record my
>operating as VP5MM in CQ WW CW. When I received very high UBN file ( 4,5% +
>penalties??) I check it all on .wav files. And I
>found 10% of UBN's Q's as my real mistake, usually typing errors. But I
>found
>90% of penalized Q's as correct contacts and very clear on audio replay???
>Then I send e-mails to some of penalized calls to find what's really
>happened. And receive some interesting answers. DL4MCF, VR2BG etc. answered
>that they did not work me really??? There was no mistake on replay audio
>files with that did I work someone who called me using their call signs! I
>did it!! Could I know that someone was kidding with me or worked me using
>different calls already active in that contest with some concrete
>intention? On the other hand, CAN I know in future. Is it my mistake?

Correction: we have yet to have an exchange of emails to discuss our
mutual loss of an important mult.  I wrote to you as soon as I got my UBNs,
but I have yet to hear from you until your post to cq-contest, OB.

I distinctly remember you calling me during my run.  I distinctly remember
how chuffed I was that you had called me as I wasted so much bloody time
calling another VP5 earlier without any luck.  The Caribbean is tough from here
& frequently I only manage to work a few stations at the very end of the 
contest
as I just cannot get through all the JAs, Ws & EUs.

So I was less than pleased to find our Q being thrown out & now I am even
more unhappy to learn that you are as bewildered about it as I am.

We need to jointly address this with the CQ WW guys.  Please contact me
directly.

For the benefit of everybody else, this is an example of where log checking can
go wrong & if not pursued, we all loose out.  I have found challenging 
stuff like
this to be well received by the log checking folks as they are as keen on their
accuracy as their efforts have made me keen on mine.  Problem is that to
pursue this, you need some basis to do so & for this particular contact, I have
had nothing until now.

73, BV/VR2BrettGraham


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