[CQ-Contest] CQWW PHONE UBNs

[Tonno Vahk]

I absolutely support the disclosure of all the logs and UBN reports as well. 
EU Sprint really stands out in that respect is just enjoying this advantage 
alone now.

It would be highly educational and would make the contest more interesting 
and transparent and decrease cheating. Top places would be under spotlight 
and the small pistols should have nothing to be afraid of as nobody manages 
to check all the UBNs:) That in
case some might be shy for some reason to have their logs public...

I would like to hear some negative aspects from anybody if there is any. I 
don't think it would expose the log checking procedure as you can draw those 
conclusions from your own UBN already!

As for 2004 SSB UBN I went through all my recordings and checked the N, U 
and B calls. It is interesting.

Out of 4217 QSOs in SOAB I had 14 BADs, 24 -NILs, 19 Uniques and 52 not 
penalized NILs. Lost 3,7% of the score which I am quite satisfied with.

Out of 14 BADs actually 4 were correct QSOs with existing calls. 10 were 
correctly judged. Out of the 10 3 were correctly copied by me and mistyped 
and 7 were miscopied.

Out of 24 penalized NILs 10 sounded perfect QSOs so could not help. In 10 
cases I did not get audible confirmation and the station probably did not 
get the call right, my mistakes. In 4 cases it was understandable that the 
station was actually calling someone else. My mistake again entering the 
QSOs. For some reason OT4A gave me -NILs on 3 bands. Did not log me, 
strange.

Out of 19 Uniques 14 were true Uniques and correct QSOs but 5 were actually 
my coping mistakes and I escaped penalties by hitting an existing call.

So 4 extra BADs but 5 Us that should have been BADs. Quite fair:)

Nobody should really complain about log checking as naturally it can never 
be 100% accurate (it is amazingly good though) and everybody is in the same 
conditions and judged the same way. Should anybody get any QSOs restored 
based on recordings then this would be unfair towards those who don't have 
recording capabilities.

And I think it is better to keep the scoring and penalty systems as they are 
now just to have continuity even if they are not perfect as still the 
conditions are the same for everybody and penalties do increase accuracy not 
like in WPX...

73
tonno
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