Fw: [CQ-Contest] Post Contest Log Scrubbing

[Rex Maner]

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From: "Leigh S. Jones" <kr6x at kr6x.com>
To: <cq-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 01:59
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Post Contest Log Scrubbing


>
> I started my contesting a long time ago.  For me, the logging
> software features are still novelties.  For about 3/4 of my
> hamming carreer and 15/16ths of my contesting contacts I've
> done it all without a computer.  As late as a decade ago I
> did the SS without a computer, then I entered every contact
> from the paper logs into the computer to perform the dupe
> task post-contest.
>
> I still keep paper notes to myself about errors I've made
> logging, then fix it on the computer after the contest.  So,
> for me, the concept that one could do an accurate job of
> logging without a little post-contest fix-up is a little foreign.
> During the CQWW CW at the So. Calif. multi-op I was
> at, most of the operators left numerous notes in the
> computer logs and sent sked messages over the network
> to the other bands.  These are things I can't find the right
> hotkeys for in the heat of a contest.  Their notes were
> things like "He told me I was a dupe, but he's not in our
> log".  Which may translate to "someone should delete the
> QSO with the earlier erroneous callsign after the contest."
>
> These kinds of things are, in my view, within the spirit
> and letter of the rules, Bill's comments notwithstanding.
>
> Of course, the veiled requests Bill appears to be getting
> after the contest to add QSOs to his log do seem a bit
> out of the box to me...
Quacks
My contesting experience is almost Idential to the above experience except
for Multi op . We at W7RM just SHOUTED  out WHO NEEDS  UI8??? and then sent
them to that band,  I also rember using the computer POST contest just to do
the dupe sheet.  I also make notes on a scratch pad to make Post changes
that happen during contest, I don't feel this is incorrect.

I also recieved an E-Mail after one of the contest but don't even rember
from whom or did I respond ??     I didn't give it any thought about LOG
polishing.  This guy may have been attempting to reduce the UBN nrs ??
CU the CW types on 10 this wkend and will follow  John K4 Bare Assed Indian
advice and if a EU wants a SN now I will know why.
Rex


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bill Fisher W4AN" <w4an at contesting.com>
> To: <cq-contest at contesting.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 1:11 PM
> Subject: [CQ-Contest] Post Contest Log Scrubbing
>
>
> >
> >
> > I think everyone has their version of what is acceptable post
> contest log
> > checking practice.  I personally subscribe to the at 00Z the contest
> is
> > over and the log is turned in (as is) method.  Mostly because going
> > through a log after the contest would be a horrible bore.
> >
> > But a friend of mine gets this email after the CQWW contest from a
> very
> > well known contester and asks for advice...
> >
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------
> --
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I just wanted to confirm that we either did nor did not
> > > have a contact in CQWWCW.
> > >
> > > I show a qso with <callsign> at 2355 on 14 mhz on day 1 of CQWWCW.
> > >
> > > Can you please either confirm that we did have a qso at that
> > > time or that we did not?  If we did not, then I will be glad
> > > to remove it from my log.
> > >
> > > Thanks and 73
> > >
> > > <name>, <hiscallsign>
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------
> ---
> >
> > I don't know who sent this mail and I'm not going to say who got it.
> But,
> > I wanted to post it here so that if anyone was confused or unsure
> about
> > this type of email...  You shouldn't be!  It is against the rules
> and you
> > shouldn't do it.
> >
> > 73
> >
> > Bill, W4AN
> >
> >
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