[ct-user] Re: [CQ-Contest] Field Day and CW

[kd4d at comcast.net]

Hello, All:

This was happening to me on stations that HAD NOT been worked before and
were not in the log.  Only the category was entered...the section stayed
blank.  Weird...

Mark


> Well let me put the operator thing to rest. I had worked a club station in
> CA, which I'm very familiar with. The station was a 2A. I worked them a
> little later on 80. I entered their call, hit the space bar, and CT
> magically entered""""""5D""""""". My first entry was correct and CT just
> made up the 5D. It got the section right. As for not knowing how to use CT,
> well I've been using it every contest since the late 80's, and even have a
> few, very few, wins. I think I know how to use CT. As for a copying error as
> I've already said I copied it right the first time, CT made it up the second
> time. It happened several more times and each time I had copied correctly
> the first time. I learned many many years ago never to trust CT. Copy each
> and every exchange everytime and this contest, FD, proved it.
> 
> MAL                N7MAL
> BULLHEAD CITY, AZ
> www.citlink.net/~suzyq/N7mal.htm
> www.geocities.com/n7mal
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Zack Widup" <w9sz at prairienet.org>
> To: <cq-contest at contesting.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 1:30 PM
> Subject: Re: [ct-user] Re: [CQ-Contest] Field Day and CW
> 
> 
> > On Wed, 30 Jun 2004, N7MAL wrote:
> >
> > > I did not have a large log and CT was changing the info, if I remember
> > > correctly, around the 30th QSO. I only noticed it on the SSB contacts. I
> was
> > > switching back and forth between CW & SSB.
> > >
> > > MAL                N7MAL
> > > BULLHEAD CITY, AZ
> >
> > I didn't think that CT changed the info.  I figured that it was logged
> > incorrectly by a previous operator on another band/mode.  I suspected it
> > was either a typing error by someone not familiar with CT, or an actual
> > copying error.
> >
> > A few years ago we had a new contester operating in a major contest with
> > our club station on SSB. I looked through the logs and found all sorts of
> > busted calls.  One was logged as a 0S4.  I never could figure out what
> > that was. :-)
> >
> > 73, Zack W9SZ
> >
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