[CQ-Contest] What would you have done?

[Mike N1TA]

Hi Ron,

On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Ron Notarius W3WN <wn3vaw at verizon.net>wrote:
>
> 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 you email both stations, and the stations use this information to
correct their logs, they are making an exchange after the contest - and
this is not legal. This is the same as emailing some EU after CQWW to
confirm their zone or to correct an exchange - it's not right. Brain spasms
happen (locally, we call them MQE's or Moron Qualifying Events), and
unfortunately they cost points, be it a momentary lapse and a wrong zone
sent or fat fingers and a wrong zone copied or using the club call by
mistake, etc., we've all done this stuff. Now, feel free to get a hold of
KX9X on this, as he'd be the ultimate authority, and might even wave the
ultimate authority wand over it. But in any case, contact him BEFORE you
try contacting either of the stations.

My $0.02.

-- 
Mike DeChristopher, N1TA




> ----------------------
>
> 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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