[CQ-Contest] CQ-Contest Digest, Vol 47, Issue 13

[Ron Notarius W3WN]

FWIW...

Back in my college days, during SS Phone, the check being sent by K3CR was
incorrect (they started with the year the operator was first licensed, 75 I
think, not the year the club station was first licensed, the infamous check
12).  After about 70 or so Q's, the error was caught and corrected.

A phone call to the League the following Monday brought the response that so
long as the other station copied the correct call sent, and so long as we
noted where the mistake was made, why, and when corrected, it would not be a
problem and neither we nor the other station would be penalized for an
honest mistake.

Now, that was long before computer log checking... or computer logs... or
even personal microcomputers... so there's no guarantee that this is still
the case.  So YMMV.

73, ron w3wn

-----Original Message-----
Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2006 20:11:24 -0800
From: Jack Brindle <jackbrindle at earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] changing category
To: Kenneth E.Harker <kenharker at kenharker.com>
Cc: CQ Contest <cq-contest at contesting.com>

Sorry. We have physical evidence that is not true. Tree and I have
discussed at least one occurrence of this from Phone SS a few years
back where 20 ops got 'dinged' when the station they contacted
corrected their exchange.  Either 20 is below the threshold, or the
software isn't as capable as one would like.

So, yes I would expect that the first group of QSOs that Mal made
would all receive deductions for bad received exchanges.

On Nov 5, 2006, at 5:57 PM, Kenneth E. Harker wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 04:33:47PM -0800, Jack Brindle wrote:
>> Mal;
>>
>> Simply put, you don't. Changing in the middle would invalidate all of
>> your previous QSOs in the other guy's logs, making them more than a
>> bit upset.
>
> That's not true.
>
> The log checking process will accomodate a station changing a
> static portion
> of the exchange in one of two ways (depending on the contest): (a)
> cross-
> checking with the exact log data that was sent, or (b) identifying
> that
> station's log as "unstable" and excluding it from cross-checking with
> other logs.  In either case, the other stations are generally not
> going
> to be penalized when someone they work send a different exchange
> later on
> in the contest.
>
> --
> Kenneth E. Harker WM5R
> kenharker at kenharker.com
> http://www.kenharker.com/