[CQ-Contest] What would you have done?

[Radio K0HB]

"What happens in the contest, stays in the contest."

Leave it alone.

3333333,

Hans, K0HB


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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