[CQ-Contest] QSO Penalties

[George Fremin III]

On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 06:43:15PM -0400, K3BU at aol.com wrote:

> Delete the QSO .... that is not what you were pushing for a few years ago:
> 
> On 6-Sep-2000 K3BU said:
> http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2000-09/msg00052.html
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> Speaking statistically: If I make an error in W7WHY call by writing
> W7WSY that is an error in one letter and not all five letters, which
> seem to be indicated by crossing that whole call out (and applying
> 
> The discussion was about calculating error RATE. Not 3 QSO penalty thing.

Did you read the thread?

http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2000-09/msg00035.html

It and several of the related ones that kicked the thread off were all
about the 'penalty thing'.  

And while I am here talking about the 'penalty thing' again
I just noticed this nice post by N6AA on the reason for the 
3 QSO penalty - not that several recnet posters have not 
stated as much in the past few days.

http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2000-09/msg00023.html


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