[CQ-Contest] Dinged Good QSOs

[Mike Gilmer - N2MG]

Tree highlighted several examples of what I meant by "unfixable" weaknesses.

Although painful, I think the mistaken loss of a few good QSOs is a fair price to pay for the, IMO, overwhelmingly correct removal of bad QSOs.

N2MG

On Mon, 30 July 2001, Tree N6TR wrote:

> 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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