[CQ-Contest] Chasing W1AW Stations

ve4xt at mymts.net ve4xt at mymts.net
Mon Sep 15 09:15:46 EDT 2014 

Copying what was sent has to have limits. If you're walking a casual op through an SS exchange and you ask him his power (to determine his PREC), and he responds 1kw, do you put 1kw in the PREC entry or do you translate it to B? If you're on phone, do you log Mexico Lima or just type in ML?

And if it's ok to translate phonetics, why is it wrong to translate cut numbers?

If he doesn't know his section, but tells you he's in Marin County, do you enter Marin, knowing its not a section, or do you put in SF? If he says you're his first, do you log "first" or enter 1?

If someone sends leading zeroes, do you log them or is it just Q no. 37? What if your logger is smart enough to do its own zero-ectomy?

I agree 200% that you should use what was sent to formulate your log entry. And that you use auto fill and SCP at your peril.

I do not believe, though, that one should be a mindless automaton about it.

73, Kelly
ve4xt 


Sent from my iPad

> On Sep 15, 2014, at 7:50 AM, "Gerry Hull" <gerry at yccc.org> wrote:
> 
> Agreed.
> 
> I operate from home in NH, Remotely from VT, and from many other places as
> a guest op... esp. in Sweepstakes.  I'd bet at least 2% or more of the
> stations who work me get the state/section wrong because they ignore what
> is sent and just use the auto-fill.  It's a bad habit.
> 
> 73, Gerry W1VE
> 
> 
>> On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 10:08 PM, Charles Harpole <hs0zcw at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Dave, I try to copy what is sent, including those stupid cut numbers.......
>> just what comes in goes into my log.
>> The way the old telegraphers had to do.  Charly​
>> 
>>> On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 1:33 AM, David Siddall <hhamwv at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I reviewed my 2014 ARRL DX contest LCR and was puzzling over how so
>>> many contestants not only got my state wrong, but almost always
>>> inserted "VA" even though I am "K3" ZJ.  It's not SCP because I
>>> haven't operated from "VA" for a very long time . . . . Furthermore,
>>> this mistake almost always was by a station that CALLED ME during a
>>> run. So I have to assume that they could hear me well, and even if
>>> they didn't, I was giving out my state repeatedly so they could stay
>>> on frequency until they got it.
>>> 
>>> Now I understand -- my FCC license address is in VA where I reside,
>>> even though I rarely (almost never) operate from that state.  Instead
>>> of entering what they hear, they either enter my licensed address or
>>> accept it if it is pre-filled by this software.
>>> 
>>> I guess this works for 90+ percent of the time.  But entering what one
>>> actually copies is the objective.
>>> 
>>> 73,
>>> 
>>> Dave K3ZJ
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Sep 14, 2014, at 12:09 AM, "Radio K0HB" <kzerohb at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> My logger, Log4OM, does an instant lookup at QRZ as soon as the cursor
>>> leaves the callsign field, and rotates my antenna based on the grid
>> lookup.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 73, de Hans, K0HB
>>>> "Just a Boy and his Radio"
>>>>        7⃣3⃣
>>>> 
>>>>> On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 11:04 PM, Joe <nss at mwt.net> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> I suppose he could have a callbook on his computer,, that would be
>> fast
>>>>> enough I guess?  Going to qrz seems that it would be too slow ya know?
>>>>> Joe WB9SBD
>>>>> Sig
>>>>> The Original Rolling Ball Clock
>>>>> Idle Tyme
>>>>> Idle-Tyme.com
>>>>> http://www.idle-tyme.com
>>>>>> On 9/13/2014 10:42 PM, Radio K0HB wrote:
>>>>>> Sat and listened to him do it for at least 15 minutes before I broke
>>>>>> his pile up.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 73, de Hans, K0HB
>>>>>> "Just a Boy and his Radio"
>>>>>> 7⃣3⃣
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 10:40 PM, Joe <nss at mwt.net
>>>>>> <mailto:nss at mwt.net>> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> That fast?
>>>>>> He was running pretty fast probably a qso rate of ohhh180 to 200 a
>>>>>> hour,at least 3 a minute.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Joe WB9SBD
>>>>>> Sig
>>>>>> The Original Rolling Ball Clock
>>>>>> Idle Tyme
>>>>>> Idle-Tyme.com
>>>>>> http://www.idle-tyme.com
>>>>>>> On 9/13/2014 8:49 PM, Dan Violette wrote:
>>>>>>> Joe, He probably did not personally know you but looked you up
>>>>>> live on QRZ.
>>>>>>> Dan KI6X
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>>> From: CQ-Contest [mailto:cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On
>>>>>> Behalf Of Joe
>>>>>>> Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2014 7:45 AM
>>>>>>> To: cq-contest at contesting.com
>>>>>>> Subject: [CQ-Contest] Chasing W1AW Stations
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I know off topic some, But I just worked w1aw/0 at 14:24 on
>>>>>> 18133 Worked him
>>>>>>> first call and re replied with the reply etc. but then called me
>>>>>> by name,, I
>>>>>>> have no idea who the op right now is. And unlike many of the other
>>>>>>> operations I can't find a online schedule of what op's have what
>>>>>> time slots.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I'd like to know who the op is.:-)
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Joe WB9SBD
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>> Sig
>>>>>>> The Original Rolling Ball Clock
>>>>>>> Idle Tyme
>>>>>>> Idle-Tyme.com
>>>>>>> http://www.idle-tyme.com
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>> --
>> Charly, HS0ZCW
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