[CQ-Contest] Exchange Inconsistencies & Integrity

[W0MU Mike Fatchett]

I think we have bigger issues in contesting than nit picking about KW, 
1000, K, 1K.  All of these abbreviations have been in use for the entire 
time I have been contesting.

So on 10m I am able to put out 1300 watts yet on 160 I can put out 1500. 
   Maybe my second amp can only put out 500 watts so what power level 
should I use?

The object is to work people as quickly as possible and that involves 
making the exhcange easy to copy and understand.

Do you our anyone else really care what power I am running?  The goal is 
to work the guy and copy whatever it is he sends.  We use 5NN EE and a 
whole host of other other shortcuts that are easily translated to 599 
1000 or whatever.

I guess we can only use our full legal names in the Qso parties now?

And we better only use the approved phonetics too or else we will get dqed?







Eric Hilding wrote:
> (RE-Threaded from ARRL DX SSB Exchange - applies to both CW & SSB)
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>>> Unlike the K, KW, KILO,  <http://et.al/> et.al. INconsistencies, CA is the
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>>> option or I'd almost be willing to bet $$$ that the robot would nuke the Q
>>> if they tried CF, CFNA, etc.
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> Al, KE1FO, replied:
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>> This flawed logic blows a big hole in your argument.  Nowhere do the rules
> state that the only acceptable abbreviation for California is CA.  It only
> says that US/VE stations send their >state and DX stations send their power:
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> Quite the contrary.  The ARRL implied precedent for a State identifier is:
> ' (Use the two-letter postal abbreviation.) ' as indicated at:
> http://www.arrl.org/locate/locate.html .
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> The two contest logging software programs I have generate an Error message
> for anything other than CA (or Ca) being entered for California:
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> 1.    WriteLog indicates an invalid mult name if CF, CFNA, etc. -  CA must
> be used.
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> 2.    TR4W will not allow completion of an entry for CF, CFNA, etc. -  CA
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> Further, the multiplier dialog boxes for WriteLog and TR4W clearly show CA
> (WL) or Ca (TR4W) as the STANDARD multiplier designations for California. 
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>> The Power rule (4.2) for DX stations, is actually much clearer, saying that
> that portion of the exchange is to be a "number indicating approximate
> transmitter output power".  Last time I >checked, K was not a number.  My
> logic says that logging any of the things you received as anything other
> than 1000 would be nuked.
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> Since when is 1,000 an "approximate transmitter output power" for 1,500
> watts?  The current rules promote violations and lack of Integrity.
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> Using W0RAA's or K6iii's suggestions or a simple schema like the following
> (and a simple tweak by logging software authors similar to the way mults are
> handled) wraps things up quite nicely:
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> H = High Power (greater than 150 watts but not to exceed 1500 watts)
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> L =  Lower Power (greater than 5 watts but less than 150 watts)
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> Q = QRP (5 watts or less)
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> If anything other than H, L or Q are entered into the power exchange field,
> the QSO can not be logged.
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> H, L & Q also conform to the rules categories and can minimize exchange
> errors.  What could be simpler than this?  
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> KISS-KISS-KISS.
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> 73.
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> Rick, K6VVA
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