[CQ-Contest] K3BU and multi-single

[zl1aih at ihug.co.nz]

Yuri wrote :-
> Operated QRP in CQ WW on 160. Typically I spent half an hour to make
> QSO, waiting for pileup to die. I make few QSOs and I remember each
> of them. Then I get UBN report and I see that that I am not in the
> log of EI7M and PJ4M (? the big M/S anyway), I know I worked them,
> but they "don't have" me in the log. Could it be that I was
> "inconvenient QSO" due to their "creative logging" bending M/S rule
> and they decided to cross me out (what's another W/K) in order not
> to violate the 10 min whatever rule? Email to log checkers was no
> avail, "take it with perpetrators". The point is that I get
> penalized for perfectly good QSO, while "clever" M/S gets away with
> cheating. 

Tree wrote :-
>Both EI7M (on CW) and PJ4W (on SSB) have 
QSOs on 160 meters before and
after the time of the "QSO" as shown in the K3BU 
log.  It looks like
the inconvenient truth is that these NILs had nothing 
to do with a M/S
rule violation.>

Pure conjecture on my part (I wasn't in the contest), 
but consider this scenario in a CW contest :-

ZX1X and XP9Z separated by <500hz are running 
stations, and as experienced ops are using their 
ears as filters (rather than using RIT and narrower 
filters) - they are both being called by S&P stations 
who may or may not have disabled RIT or who prefer 
1000hz CW tone.   There are possibly two sets of 
S&P ops within the passbands available to both 
ZX1X and XP9Z.   
However, the waiting S&P stations have narrowed 
their filters to hear only one of the two running 
stations.
Both running stations trying to maintain rate, send 
their own calls only once every few minutes (which 
would p**s me off anyway) - if they've been spotted 
then maybe they go into DXpedition mode and send 
their call after no one else calls. 
If K3BU is calling ZX1Z but is in fact listening to and 
being heard by XP9Z, then K3BU will not appear in 
ZX1Z's log.
None of this problem would have occurred if both 
ZX1Z andd XP9Z had observed the rules of their 
own administration rather than bend them to their 
own advantage.
Identifying every 10 minutes might be convenient for 
a DXpedition trying to maximise QSOs but DXCC or 
Honour Roll needs nothing more than a QSL card.
Contest log checkers need logs.
Until both contesters and contest organisers 
recognise that a contest QSO is not valid until both 
stations call signs have been sent during that QSO 
then Yuri's criticism is fair comment.
I have found myself in the same situation more than 
once.
73,
Ken ZL1AIH