[CQ-Contest] Log checking with mismatched bands

[Rick Lindquist, WW3DE]

In the RTTY Round-Up I had N1MM tell me the station I worked was a dupe.
Well, I made a note of it (like, on paper), because I didn't believe I'd
worked that one on 15 previously. Turns out that the logger thought I was on
20 for some reason, and he probably wasn't the only Q that ended up being
logged on the wrong band (I went back afterward and inserted him into the
log on the correct band). Not sure what went awry, but the logger did get
out of sync with the radio for a few Qs - not that I worked too many
stations in the RU anyway. 

I find RTTY contesting can get rather tedious, since you don't have to do
much more than tune the radio (unless you're running) and click the mouse. I
hope to do a bit more operating for the NAQP CW.

73, Rick, WW3DE (Delaware)

-----Original Message-----
From: cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com
[mailto:cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of David Levine
Sent: Thursday, January 07, 2010 9:31 AM
To: Don Field
Cc: cq-contest at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Log checking with mismatched bands

Don (and others),

Thanks for the responses on and off the list. In my case, the running
station appears to be wrong. Though I was S&Ping, I was only on the band I
logged that contact on and it's directly between 2 frequencies of the
previous and next contacts on that band. Plus I only have 1 radio so there's
no opportunity, unless I manually switch bands and the software should
follow, for me to make a contact on another band. I wasn't using any
spotting network so it couldn't have been an erroneous click either. So just
using the Run station vs the S&P station doesn't seem to be valid, at least
in my case.

Of course if there are submitted logs for the other stations that he worked
preceding/following me, maybe it would help highlight the issue and
hopefully show the run station had something go awry.

I think the most important info and it seems all have posted, is that if
they can't make it obvious through other methods which is right/wrong, then
either both stations are given a NIL or both given an Ok. I don't like the
NIL since I'm possibly penalized for someone elses mistake but I guess it's
no different then a Run station not logging my S&P contact with them for any
of a dozen reasons.

73,
K2DSL - David

On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 6:33 AM, Don Field <don.field at gmail.com> wrote:

> Something similar for the IOTA contest. It is often quite clear which of
> the
> two is correct where there is a mismatch of band and/or mode. Usually it
> will be obvious that one station is running while the other is in S&P
mode.
> The running station is almost certainly correct. The other way to tell is
> when one station is mismatched in several different logs - clearly he has
a
> problem with logging the correct info.
>
> Once this is done there are usually very few instances left which cannot
be
> resolved. Probably 20 in 500k QSOs. I allow them, on the basis of
"innocent
> until proven guilty". Frankly, with so few, it isn't going to materially
> affect the results either way.
>
> Don G3XTT
> IOTA Contest Manager
>
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