[CQ-Contest] self help during contest

[K0HB]

>
> For that matter, why should an activity that involves only yourself not
> be acceptable? In other words, why can't you record the contest
> operation and use your recording, after the contest is over, to
> check the accuracy of your log? You are not creating new QSOs,
> only corrrecting ones that have already been made.
>

I don't think the issue is so much "when" you do it, but "what" you do.

Grooming your log without the pressure of making the next QSO seems to me 
outside the spirit of the competition.  Sitting back with a coffee or a brew 
and leisurely "stepping through" each Q, maybe backing up and replaying a 
couple of times to make sure you heard an "I" instead of an "E", is not 
"checking the accuracy".  It is replaying the contest to correct errors that 
you made in the heat of battle.

73, de Hans, K0HB
"Just a boy and his radio"