[CQ-Contest] Post Contest Log Scrubbing

[Joseph.Agius at sybase.com]

I don't think that this is appropriate.  The idea of the contest (one goal
of which is to practice for
emergencies, when other communications are down) is to be accurate at the
given time of
the contact.

Asking for verifiction could be  the same as setting up a schedule.

If you are allowed to clean up the log so you don't get penalized for bad
contacts,
then the people who check the logs are wasting time and the log analysis is
useless.

An appropriate response would be " if we made a contact it would be in both
of our logs"


Joe








Bill Fisher W4AN <w4an at contesting.com> on 12/11/2001 04:11:40 PM
                                                                            
                                                                            
                                                                            


                                                              
                                                              
                                                              
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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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