[CQ-Contest] End of contest and rewriting log

[Tom W8JI]

> Why paper notes?

Why stop a run to edit a typo?

What if the logging program messes up?

> IMHO get it right in the log before you continue. This can't take very 
> long.

It can take 2-3 minutes or more for a reboot.

> My experience with this is I usually lost the note or still didn't get it
> right. Also
> it's a waste of time during a real run.......

Not really.

> Anything after the contest today is considered massaging.

Not really, not when it is merging a paper and computer log.

> Oh if your in a run you may not want to take the time as you could stand 
> to
> loose freq.
> Maybe better just to take the QSO as loss and carry on with the run 
> however
> enough
> busted calls and report could get you heavily penalized in the end.

You are calling it busted calls, it is not. It can be a computer induced 
problem, software, bumping the keyboard, or anything. Just jot the error on 
paper and merge it later.

For example in one contest my computer logging program, I was using Wintest, 
kept locking up. The only cure was a reboot. When the computer crashed I 
paper logged. I had a mixture of about 25% paper and 75% computer. I don't 
feel the least bit bad or guilty about merging the logs, and I don't think 
any rational reasonable person would. While I did most of it during off 
times, I probably did some after it ended.

This is far different than correcting calls with external lookups.

73 Tom