[CQ-Contest] 1980s checks in SS/SSB

[john at kk9a.com]

I made over 1500 QSOs last weekend and I did my best to log everything that
was sent.  Between the QRM, both intentional and unintentional, tiredness
and distraction of using a second radio I am sure that mistakes were made.
Some errors are even cause by people accidently sending the wrong
information. I see no reason to attempt to make if even more difficult by
making me retype your check. Since this contest simulates message handling,
no one is ever copying the real year that you were first licensed. Is this
any different than if I said my section was WV and I am in NC?

John KK9A - W4AAA
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Radio K0HB [mailto:kzerohb at gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, November 21, 2014 6:42 PM
To: john at kk9a.com; cq-contest at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] 1980s checks in SS/SSB

Contesting is about Radioman skills.

Having a year-to-year variable check in SS serves to reward those who copy 
what is sent, not what their computer thinks ought to have been sent.

73, de Hans, K0HB



-----Original Message----- 
From: john at kk9a.com
Sent: Friday, November 21, 2014 5:12 PM
To: cq-contest at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] 1980s checks in SS/SSB

Why would anyone want to do this?

John KK9A

To: cq-contest at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] 1980s checks in SS/SSB.
From: Robert Chudek <Robert.Chudek at gmail.com>
Reply-to: Robert.Chudek at gmail.com
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 16:39:46 -0600

Actually, it's a know fact that _some_ operators change their check to try
and thwart the "appliance contesters" out there. :-)

73 de Bob - KØRC in MN

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