[CQ-Contest] Res: C6APR

[John Laney]

I have already responded privately to Scott as to his suggestion for 
everyone to log C6APR first in the contest this weekend.  I think it is 
excellent, except for the fact that we have no provision in Cabrillo 
format to log a station and not take credit for the QSO that didn't 
really happen.  If we log it, we will be taking credit for QSO points 
and possibly even a multiplier that we didn't earn.

One possibility would be to log C6APR BEFORE or AFTER the contest 
period.  I think the contacts then would be deleted and not credited by 
the logchecking software.  You could log C6APR at 2359 UTC on Friday and 
it would not affect your score.  NOTE HOWEVER that it would (at least 
with most logging programs that I am familiar with) increase your 
claimed score and show the C6 multiplier as worked when you still needed 
it.  Perhaps the best thing would be to log it AFTER the contest. 
Either log it in your logger at 0001 UTC Monday (and refigure your 
claimed score or note your claimed score without the extra QSO and 
change your claimed score in the Cabrillo file).  Or simply add it to 
the Cabrillo log with a text editor using a non-contest date and it 
would be ignored by the log checking software.

No matter how worthy the reason (and this is certainly a worthy reason), 
we should not encourage the logging of stations not actually worked 
during the contest period.

73,

John, K4BAI.