[CQ-Contest] What would you have done?

[Ron Notarius W3WN]

Art,
 
It sounds like you know who the two stations are and you have email addresses for them.

If I'd overheard this, I'd email both stations and tell them exactly what you observed. And I would definitely contact Sean up at the League and tell him the same thing.

If the ENY station copied what was sent, which is what you are supposed to do, he shouldn't be dinged if the other guy had a brain f... spasm. He might lose the mult because he didn't actually work the section sent, which is up to the log checkers to determine (hopefully he worked someone else in WNY). 

 
Things like this can happen in the heat of a contest. The few times I held a frequency, I almost said "CQ Pa QSO Party" not "CQ Sweepstakes" more than a couple of times; wrong rote! I think I caught myself in time, if not, well, the jokes on me, right?

 
73, ron w3wn

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On 11/21/11, Art Boyars<artboyars at gmail.com> wrote:

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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