[CQ-Contest] What would you have done?

[Robert Brandon]

I'd let it ride.  We all lose a few Qs for things beyond our control.

Robert K5PI

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[mailto:cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Art Boyars
Sent: Monday, November 21, 2011 7:59 AM
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Subject: [CQ-Contest] What would you have done?

SS SSB.  I worked an S&P station with a 2-land call who gave section WPA.
No question he said WPA (unless I was halucinating), and it happens all the
time -- many of you worked a 2-land station in New Mexico.  I even looked
up the WPA station on one of the call sign data bases because I look up
almost all the WPA that I work -- my wife is from Pittsburgh, and it's nice
to be able to tell her something like "I worked a guy in Connellsville."
(Perhaps I should not be consulting data bases during the 'Test, but we
popgun one-radio stations have a lot of spare time.  And I would NOT have
changed my log.)

Anyhow, a few minutes later I changed to S&P myself, and I heard him work a
2-land station in ENY, and my "WPA" guy sent "WNY".  Huh?!?!  I'm thinking,
"Did I mis-copy his section?  Am I allowed to fix my log if I decide that
he is WNY instead of WPA?"

Then I heard him a third time, and he sent WPA again.  OK, I decide that he
had a brain fumble when he sent "WNY".  Maybe that's his original home.
Whatever.

But now I'm feeling sorry for the ENY station.  He is going to get dinged
for "mis-copying" the section.

I tried to find the ENY station to tell him what happened, but I did not
remember who it was.  And I never heard the WPA station again to tell him
about it so he could try to fix it.

Should I care about somebody else getting dinged for a third person's
error?  Should I try to fix this error (E-mail the WPA station and tell him
what he did?  E-mail the SS log checkers and tell them what happened?)

73, Art K3KU
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