[CQ-Contest] Automation = lost essential skills

[Ron Notarius W3WN]

How likely is it that the "Sunday driver" will send in a log?  Off hand, most likely "not very"...
 
So you have two choices... correct the log to the zone he (or she) SHOULD have sent, and hope for the best... or log what was sent.
 
Now it comes down to the log checking automation.
 
If this station... let's call him DM00SUN for the sake of argument... only shows up in one log, there's no way for the log check system to know if you made a mistake or not.  

But if DM00SUN show ups in multiple logs, and (s)he was sending a serial number instead of a zone... the pattern should be pretty clear as to what they were doing.  
 
OTOH... let's presume that DM00SUN shows up in 5 logs.  You logged 59 14, the next guy 59 02, then 59 03, etc.  This would indicate to me, as a human log checker, that You logged what you THOUGHT should have been sent, NOT what was sent.  Therefore, the logged QSO was clearly incorrect as logged.  
 
Now consider again Randy's example of 7O2A.  If you logged what the computer said was the zone for Yemen, and not the zone for Socotra, even though the correct zone was being sent... you  got dinged.  
 
Bottom line is that you can't control what the other station is sending.  
 
Therefore... my advice is Log What Is Sent, NOT What You Expect.
 
And make a note somewhere to tell a human being, should this 1 Q (or others like it) make a significant change to your score that affects your standing in the results, that you logged what was sent, not what you thought was right.  Because you might not be right... as demonstrated with the real 7O2A, as opposed to the hypothetical DM00SDUN.
 
73



On 11/20/13, Cqtestk4xs at aol.com wrote:

When a "Sunday driver" guy calls me in the contest from DJ and sends me 
5901 instead of 5914, that clearly is wrong. You're saying that I should log 
it as 5901 and not make the correction?

K4XS


In a message dated 11/20/2013 2:12:05 P.M. Coordinated Universal Tim, 
k5zd at charter.net writes:

We had a very good example of this in CQWW SSB. 7O2A was on the air from
Socotra Island in Yemen. He clearly sent zone 37 for every QSO, but many
operators went with the default zone filled in by their logging software
(21)... and lost the multiplier.

Randy, K5ZD

> -----Original Message-----
> From: CQ-Contest [mailto:cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of
> kr2q at optimum.net
> Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2013 1:57 AM
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> Subject: [CQ-Contest] Automation = lost essential skills
> 
> I saw this on the NBC Nightly News today (Nov 19) and the analogy to
> contesting immediately became apparent.
> 
> Of course, nobody dies using automation to work DX.
> 
> As one local in NJ put it, "Search and Pounce" has become "Pounce."
> 
> de Doug KR2Q
> 
> 
> http://www.nbcnews.com/id/3032619/#53605685
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