[CQ-Contest] Dinged Good QSOs

[Tree N6TR]

Mike, N2MG writes:

> Even though any score adjustment would be minimal (and likely not 
> even attempted), I would think the sponsors would want to know what 
> QSOs their software dinged by mistake.  

> I'm convinced they strive to "do the right thing".  Any fundamental 
> weakness in their software that is fixable, they'll fix.

Absolutely!  Although, there are a couple of caveats.

First off, you need to have realistic expectations on the abilities
of the log checking software to deal with the circumstances.  For 
example, I recently had feedback that a QSO was NIL in a single band
10 meter log because the other station logged the QSO on 15 meters.
While it is pretty obvious what happened and where the fault lies,
there is no way for the log checking program to know all of the facts
and be able to "do the right thing".  In this case, both parties will
lose credit for the QSO.

Secondly, whenever NIL (not-in-log) checking is done, you are
dependent on the other guy putting you in his log.  You might 
have a perfect QSO on your tape, but if the QSO doesn't show 
up in his log (for whatever reason), you will lose the QSO.  This
happened to me in the February CW Sprint - it is painful, but it
is part of the game and happens to everyone.

Overall, I would estimate rate of good QSOs being marked bad as
being in the order of 1 out of 1,000 QSOs - much less than the 
bad QSOs being left as good.

Tree


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