[CQ-Contest] Automation = lost essential skills

[Radio K0HB]

As a long communicator-for-a-living it is ingrained that you transcribe exactly what is received.  Now I may try to persuade you that you really are NOT in Zone 25, but if you persist in sending 599 25 then I am obliged to record that in my log.




And the sponsor is obliged to score it as a good exchange.




73, de Hans, K0HB

On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 12:39 PM, null <Cqtestk4xs at aol.com> wrote:

> Following that line of thinking, when someone who has a ratty fist  sends 
> his call incorrectly during my QSO I should log that call, and not the one  I 
> think it is?   Gonna cost you points.  I've worked quite a few  guys in CW 
> contests whose fists are not FOC quality
>  
> K4XS
>  
>  
> In a message dated 11/20/2013 4:46:41 P.M. Coordinated Universal Tim,  
> kzerohb at gmail.com writes:
> You  should log what is sent.
> 73, de Hans, K0HB
> -----Original  Message----- 
> From: Cqtestk4xs at aol.com
> Sent: Wednesday, November 20,  2013 2:21 PM
> To: cq-contest at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest]  Automation = lost essential skills
> 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
>>  To: cq-contest at contesting.com
>> 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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