[CQ-Contest] Log checking Revisited

[Dick Green]

That's why I logged it as "VRONA", then edited it to be VERONA in the
Cabrillo file.

73, Dick WC1M

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Maass [mailto:jmaass at columbus.rr.com] 
> Sent: Sunday, July 13, 2003 8:03 PM
> To: N7MAL; cq-contest at contesting.com
> Cc: ct-user at contesting.com
> Subject: RE: [CQ-Contest] Log checking Revisited
> 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com 
> > [mailto:cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com]On Behalf Of N7MAL
> > Sent: Sunday, July 13, 2003 18:20
> > To: cq-contest at contesting.com
> > Cc: ct-user at contesting.com
> > Subject: [CQ-Contest] Log checking Revisited
> > 
> > 
> > Regarding the recent thread where it appears log checkers have
> > some latitude
> > in determining whether we copy an exchange correctly or incorrectly.
> > Here is an excerpt from this weekend with PJ2HQ. CT did not 
> allow enough
> > room to type the exchange and as a result I result I could be 
> > penalized even
> > though I copied the exchange correctly(VERONA).
> > PJ2HQ         599 VERON (This from the Cabrillo file)
> > 
> > I participate for fun but for some of the 'big-guns' one or more 
> > points reduced because the logging software didn't leave room could 
> > spell doom.
> > 
> > MAL                N7MAL
> 
> 
> Writelog had the same problem, and it's complicated by the 
> fact that 'VERON' is the legitimate HQ abbreviation for PA6HQ in the 
> Netherlands, while 'VERONA'  is a different multiplier, for 
> PJ2HQ in the Netherlands Antilles. Thus, the truncation is 
> liable to go 
> uncaught with automated checking.
> 
> BTW, QSL for PJ2HQ is via N9AG.
> 
> 73,
>      Jeff Maass  K8ND
> 
>      Caribbean Contesting Consortium - PJ2T
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