[CQ-Contest] CQWW impt notice: optional modification to cabrillo format

[Zack Widup]

The station on the other end has no idea he's working someone who is
breaking the rules. He makes a QSO and all the correct info is
exchanged. As far as he knows it's a valid QSO. He didn't do anything
wrong. Why should he be penalized?

If a station is DQ'ed in a contest, should all the stations he worked
be penalized for the QSO's? They didn't do anything wrong.

Doesn't make sense to me.

73, Zack W9SZ


On 11/8/11, W0MU Mike Fatchett <w0mu at w0mu.com> wrote:
> Wait................
>
> So a Multi/Single can break the rules and have their contacts removed
> yet the other station gets to keep the contact even though the station
> they worked violated the rules?  So what is to stop the mult station
> from running and just marking the non mults as zero pointers?
>
> This sounds like trouble waiting to happen especially with some folks
> who will stretch the rules to the max.
>
> Explain to me how the mult station ends up working non mults?
>
> Mike W0MU
>
> J6M CQ WW DX CW Contest 2011
> J6/W0MU November 21 - December 1 2011
> W0MU-1 CC Cluster w0mu.net
>
>
> On 11/8/2011 4:54 AM, kr2q at optimum.net wrote:
>> Hi...
>>
>> I just received an inquiry (as shown below) and I thought it was worth
>> posting here too.
>>
>> "We were M/S and find that we worked some non-mults with the mult station.
>>  What should we
>> do?"
>>
>> New this year for CQWW, you can now include a contact row in your cabrillo
>> file that WILL NOT
>> COUNT.  This means the log checking will ignore this QSO for you, but will
>> NOT ignore it for the
>> "other guy."  This way, YOUR log is clean AND the other guy does not get
>> dinged.
>>
>> How?
>>
>> Edit your cabrillo output as follows:
>>
>> For ONLY the row (or rows) you want to be ignored, insert an "X" (no
>> quotes" in front of the
>> "QSO" portion of the row (no spaces).
>>
>> So a row that originally look like this:
>> QSO:  7011 CW 2009-11-28 0000 KT3Y   599 5      YU1LA         599 15     1
>>
>> Should be modified to look like this:
>> XQSO:  7011 CW 2009-11-28 0000 KT3Y   599 5      YU1LA         599 15
>> 0
>>
>> For M/S, also note that you should change the "Transmitter ID" (last
>> column) from "1" to "0"
>>
>> For full details (video) of the entire CQWW 2011 update, go to:
>>
>> http://www.pvrc.org/webinar/cqww_2011.wmv
>>
>> And THANKS again to the PVRC for hosting this.
>>
>> de Doug KR2Q
>> no "usual" disclaimer
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