[CQ-Contest] Newbie CW logging questions

[Zack Widup]

My answers below.

On 2/21/09, David Levine <david at levinecentral.com> wrote:
>
> I am participating (very limited) in my first CW contest this weekend. I
> have a couple questions on logging for the ARRL DX contest. Maybe it's as
> simple as "whatever they send is exactly what I log".
>
> 1) If a DX station sends "KW" as their power, I think I log KW, correct?


That's what I do - never had a problem with it being rejected.


2) If a DX station sends "K" as their power, do I log K or KW?



I've ususlly logged it as KW.


3) If a DX station sends "5TT" as their power, do I log 5TT or 500?


I always log the uncut numbers. I would log that as 500.


4) Every station is of course sending 5NN as the report. Does it matter if
> N1MM is logging as 599 vs 5NN?



I use CT which automatically fills in 599 unless you specify otherwise. But
see # 3 above.


I'm hoping the first 2 replies to this don't say the exact opposite of what
> to do. Thanks in advance for the answers.
>
> David - K2DSL


GL & 73, Zack W9SZ
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