[CQ-Contest] Res: C6APR

[Felipe J Hernandez]

John et all..

I think that more representing of our condolences would be to take the first minute of the 
contest as silence and start logging qsos after 0001 utc
I will keep my freq and announce the minute in silence for these fine
gentlemen lost while doing what we love the most.

The words will be "remembering c6apr operation by  Pete, W2GJ, Ed, K3IXD, Randy K4QO and Dallas W3PP"


Felipe
NP4Z
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: John Laney 
  Cc: cq-contest reflector 
  Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 1:46 PM
  Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Res: C6APR


  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.
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