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

[Andy Faber]

Jim,
  You are absolutely right. There is a good lesson here.
   As I admitted in the NCJ writeup, I am one of them.  I hadn't heard you 
at all until 80m, when you called me once and we couldn't make the QSO 
because I couldn't quite copy.  But you called me later and after a number 
of repeats, I got the call and number OK.  You were in my database for 
CQPWIN from prior Sprints, and I must have thought that I heard you send OH, 
so I did just log that.
  Bad operating on my part -- cost me the VT mult!  But thanks for the Q.
  73, Andy, AE6Y
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <jimk8mr at aol.com>
To: <cq-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 6:26 AM
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Did I cheat in NAQP CW?


> It does pay to not rely too much on data bases, whether electronic or
> neuronic.
>
> In the September CW Sprint, five guys (out of my 120 qsos) logged me in
> Ohio.  Unfortunately they lost the qso because I was really in Vermont.
>
> At least they did not lose a multiplier they thought they had. Just  one
> that they didn't know they should have had.
>
>
> 73  -  Jim  K8MR
>
>
>
>
>
>
> In a message dated 1/13/2010 9:01:53 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> phriendly1 at yahoo.com writes:
>
> Even  that backfires Eric.
> As you mentioned with RTTY, in a recent contest I had  someone send 
> "Thanks
> Don GL xxxxx" Don?
>
> I would have worried about the  validity of the QSO, but he was solid 
> copy.
> Whatever lookup tool he was using  had problems.
>
> My perspective on these kind of files is that they save  me some typing
> from time to time, but I still need to copy what the other  station is 
> sending
> and get that right, regardless of what the file sez...
>
> Cheers,
> "Jules"
>
> You can call me Ray, you can call me Jay,  but I sent Jules. ;o)
>
> Julius Fazekas
> N2WN
>
>
> --- On Tue,  1/12/10, Rick Lindquist, WW3DE <ww3de at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>>  From: Rick Lindquist, WW3DE <ww3de at comcast.net>
>> Subject: Re:  [CQ-Contest] Did I cheat in NAQP CW?
>> To:  cq-contest at contesting.com
>> Date: Tuesday, January 12, 2010, 1:02  PM
>> Jul/Julius is correct.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> So, when someone comes back and says something like,
>> "Thanks,  Eric, for the
>> QSO," I know they never copied the name I sent, which  would
>> be "Rick" (I
>> used "Dallas" in the NAQP CW in memory of  W3PP). This
>> further suggests that
>> my signal probably sucks,  but, hey, I already know that.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Rick/Eric,  WW3DE
>>
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