[CQ-Contest] CW UBN

[David A. Pruett]

At 09:23 PM 5/31/02 -0400, ww3s wrote:
>Just reviewed my UBN and as I expected, most of the USA multis I called for
>the mult did not log me. There has to be a trick to this; I even asked many
>to please log for the mult. Problem is, not only do I loose the mult, but I
>lose qso points I never had. Stateside qsos are for mults only, correct? So
>why when a stateside multi doesn't log me do I loose 6 points per q? Common
>sense should indicate the big multi didn't call me but rather I called them;
>the error must be on their end so why do I get points deducted?

Please let me know if you lost any QSOs from K8CC.  For the past several 
years I've reminded our operators before the contest that if they send 
someone an exchange, they are to log it, period.  Hurting the points per 
QSO ratio is not an issue.

I don't know how CQ checks logs, but with ARRL 160 and ARRL 10 (which K9TM 
and I check) the penalties are equivalent QSOs - i.e., if you have a five 
point NIL in ARRL 160, you lose that QSO plus five QSO points.  OTOH, in 
some contests like ARRL DX and SS all QSO points are the same, but the 
strategy is the same.

Dave/K8CC