[CQ-Contest] Log checking with mismatched bands

[Randy Thompson K5ZD]

For WPX I take a slightly different approach.  **IF** I can identify which
band the QSO was made on, I will make a correction so the QSO counts.  After
all, a QSO was made and I see no reason to punish one station because the
other one made a logging error.  In my experience, most of the band errors
are due to a software glitch or mistake when retyping the log.  

However, if I can not determine the band with some certainty or don't have
time to figure it out, then it goes as a NIL for both stations.

There are two kinds of mistakes that are really annoying for a log checker.
Band errors and time errors.  These are pretty fundamental items yet you
would be amazed how many mistakes are made.  Why get the hard part of the
QSO logged (call and exchange) and then lose the contact because you
couldn't tell what time it was?!

Randy, K5ZD
 

> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 8:20 PM
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> Subject: [CQ-Contest] Log checking with mismatched bands
> 
> 
> K2DSL asks:
> 
> > So my question is, assuming the contest log checking program cares 
> > about the band at all, which I imagine it might, what happens if 2 
> > conflicting log entries exist when it tries to match them 
> up? Do both 
> > people get a NIL? Does it try and figure out which band is 
> correct and 
> > how could it do that accurately?
> 
> This is an issue I have come up against a number of times.  
> On the surface, it kind of seems like a QSO logged on a 
> different band should be counted.
> 
> However, I will argue the right thing to do in the case where 
> the band matters is to count these as not-in-logs for both logs.
> 
> When a QSO is claimed on different bands, it is really 
> difficult to say for sure which of the two logs are correct.  
> One of them has to be wrong.  
> Since the QSO can't be verified to have actually taken place 
> on either band, the only real choice left is to count it as a 
> NIL - in both logs.
> 
> Note - for a contest where the band doesn't matter (like the 
> Sweepstakes), I would say the band should be ignored.
> 
> Tree N6TR
> tree at kkn.net
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