[CQ-Contest] Did I cheat in NAQP CW?

[Kelly Taylor]

I'm with Lindquist on this one: ham radio contests aren't typing class.
Never were, never should be. As long as it's an honest typo, where it's
clear that the operator did indeed copy correctly but merely typed
incorrectly, changing an O to a zero is fair game.

It's really no different than in the paper days of logging when we would,
while poring over dupe sheets (anyone remember those?) clarify what was
written. We weren't changing what we copied, we were only making sure we
could read it. Nobody claimed then that contesting was an exercise in
penmanship!

73, kelly
ve4xt


On 1/13/10 3:45 AM, "Shelby Summerville" <k4ww at arrl.net> wrote:

> Rick Lindquist, WW3DE wrote; "Regarding post-contest log checking, I don't
> feel it's "cheating" to proofread all the entries looking for typos and the
> like - entering "O" when
> I really meant to enter "0," for example."
> 
> While we are all certainly entitled to our opinions, I strongly disagree!
> All contest's have a specified time frame, and anything done "outside" that
> specified time frame is cheating. I see absolutely no difference between
> "proofreading", and using any kind of assistance, post contest, to insure
> the correctness of ones log? If "listening during off time" is considered
> operating time, why wouldn't "post contest" editing, be considered operating
> time?
> 
> "A practice that seems especially prevalent among non-US/VE stations is to
> set up the logging software to do an online lookup and insert whatever
> appears as your given name on your license record into their reply. This
> happens a lot on RTTY, within and outside of contests."
> 
> The ability to use previous contest information, "preset exchange from
> ADIF", in the current contest, is contained in most contest logging
> software. If you send in a log, it is in ones best interest to insure that
> what is sent, is what is copied, rather that what may be contained in the
> "preset exchange"> The use of a "name" in RTTY contests has a long history,
> and a "name" database, is maintained by NF4Z. I have no idea where the
> initial information, for that database, came from? I get called by my real
> name, in most contests that require a name, which has no bearing or what
> name I have sent, or what any other station may have copied?
> 
> C'Ya, Shelby - K4WW
> 
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