[CQ-Contest] Logging question

[Mats Strandberg]

Jukka,

I think this happens to us all, both after contests and after normal
contacts. I never heard any bad words about my principles of not changing
any calls or times or frequencies in order to make a guy happy for a LOTW
hit. However, I am sure they felt some frustration why I was so stubborn
not to "change such a marginal details as a call",

I normally just tell them: Work me again in next contest or when I visit
that Russian District or country another time.

We have a WFF (Flora and Fauna net) here in Sweden, where a very common
message on the blog/chat is "please send me an email if your contact did
not get confirmed, and I will take care of that". I think such messages are
indeed sad to see, taking into consideration that we are Radio Amateurs and
not Internet Amateurs...  What is logged is what should count.

73 de Mats RM2D





2015-08-04 4:23 GMT+03:00 Ron Notarius W3WN <wn3vaw at verizon.net>:

> Jukka,
>
> Not having seen the text of the original emails exchanged, it is impossible
> to know if you did or didn't say something wrong.
>
> That said...
>
> You logged what you copied.
> - If you didn't copy the calls in question correctly, for whatever reason,
> then the QSO wasn't valid and shouldn't be confirmed.
> - If you did copy the call(s) in question correctly, then there's more
> going
> on here beyond a mere LotW entry.
>
> (And, of course, there are many reasons why a call isn't copied correctly,
> including sending errors by the other station, unintentional or adjacent
> channel QRM/overload, and so forth.  No intention of placing blame on any
> of
> the parties concerned -- stuff happens.  And months after the fact, who
> knows?)
>
> So, IMHO, it's one thing for someone to ask you to check your log because
> there may have been a data entry or data upload error.  But, if you
> uploaded
> what you logged, then that's that.
>
> And, again IMHO, it is totally inappropriate for the other station to start
> slinging insults or calling names.
>
> So did you do the right thing?  In a word:  Yup.
>
> Did the other station?  Nope.
>
> Don't sweat the small stuff.  This happens; so it goes.
>
> 73, ron w3wn
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: CQ-Contest [mailto:cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of
> Jukka Klemola
> Sent: Monday, August 03, 2015 6:13 PM
> To: cq-contest
> Subject: [CQ-Contest] Logging question
>
> Fellow contesters,
>
> I got a request over email to change two of my recent logs.
> There was a 2by3 call sign asking me to change my log so he would get my
> LoTW confirmation for two QSOs.
> A third QSO was OK in our logs and 2by3 call was happy about that.
>
> My response was the QSOs happen over the air on the radio.
> Not on internet on email over internet, not at all after the contest.
>
> The 2by3 call was devastated that I had insulted him that I interprete he
> would try to make a QSO on the email. All he was asking me was to change my
> log .. on email and that happens now, some months after the contest.
>
> The 2by3 call was calling me by some names and was insulting.
>
>
> Can anyone tell me if I did anything right in my communication over email
> to the 2by3 callsign that the contest is over and my log will stay as it
> was logged when the contest was happening ?
>
> Or is there a possibility I did the right thing?
>
>
> I would have been happy to log him correctly, if he had corrected his call
> to me ..
>
>
> 73,
> Jukka OH6LI
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