[CQ-Contest] The contest is over

[Zack Widup]

Don't assume that someone calling someone else a minute after the contest is
trying to make a contest QSO.  I think I sent an e-mail earlier outlining my
attempt to work a station signing XX9A a minute after the contest was over.
I just wanted a QSO, not a contest QSO, as XX9 would've been a new one for
me on 40 CW.

However, people were jumping all over me (on top of the DX) saying "contest
over." I KNEW the contest was over and tried to tell them I just wanted a
regular QSO but they didn't listen (they also didn't send their callsigns).
No one here answered my questions about whether they heard this station
anyway, and I suspect now it was a pirate.

Oh well ...

73, Zack W9SZ

On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 6:33 PM, David Thompson <thompson at mindspring.com>wrote:

> Randy, K5ZD makes a valid point comparing the old paper log days to current
> PC logging.  With the PC and the internet and spotting nets comes the
> ability to
> make changes to the log which violates the rules of virtually every
> contest.
> I ran into a station that tried to rubber log a few contacts after viewing
> his competition on the 3830 list.
>
> There is another problem as I see it with the robots accepting logs.  Once
> a
> valid cabrillo log is received
> (or whatever the contest accepts) I feel it is wrong to submit the log
> again.  Most have version control so the log checkers know when an update
> was submitted.
>
> Perhaps we should make it illegal to do this without some explaination.
>
> Just my 2 cents on this topic.
>
> Dave K4JRB
>
>
>