[CQ-Contest] FW: Nov SS op location

[John WA2GO]

My initial thought was to tell him/her that you're sorry, but that this 
request "seems odd", and that you are a firm believer in the principle that 
once the contest is over, it is over, and that all information reported as 
copied in the contest needs to legitimately have been copied in the contest, 
so if they are are not sure what they copied, then they don't have a valid 
contact, and should strike it from the log. (Of course, now this brings up a 
curious question - should you strike it from your log? Because if you do, 
you are also editing your log after the contest, and if you don't, you will 
now lose the qso. I suppose since in this case you would be editing the log 
to REDUCE your score instead of to INCREASE it, it's probably a legitimate 
edit, but it might be debatable. It's probably moot, because you probably 
already sent your log in. Though maybe you can replace it - not sure.)

But then the holiday spirit entered the room, and I conceived the following 
slightly more generous response:  "I'm sorry that you are having trouble 
reading your log. Please fax or mail me the page showing our qso, along with 
the previous page and the following page, and I will see if I can help you 
interpret the smudge.  This will (a) give you reasonably decent confidence 
that the question is genuine, and (b) buy you some time on your decision.  
Of course, if you receive the log and anything else besides the "smudge" was 
miscopied, don't mention it to him/her.

73,

WA2GO
Advice columnist


>From: "Mike Fatchett, W0MU" <w0mu at w0mu.com>
>To: <cq-contest at contesting.com>
>Subject: [CQ-Contest] FW: Nov SS op location
>Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 19:05:30 -0700
>
>I just received this email.
>
>How would you respond?  I don't know if this person was in the contest or
>not. Name removed for privacy.
>
>
>"I 'm going through my logs from the November Phone SS, and I have a smudge
>on your op location.  Can you tell me where you op'ed?"
>
>
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