[CQ-Contest] What's the difference...

[Ron Notarius W3WN]

Art,

In a word:  No.

Some people use middle names or nicknames in NAQP.  
Sometimes they use the name of a friend or colleague who is no longer with
us.  
Sometimes it's a club call, or the call of a borrowed station, and the name
sent is that of the operator, not the station owner.
And sometimes they use something that's completely different, just to make
sure you actually copy the name sent, not what's listed online.

The ethics over what name to send & why not withstanding... one should
always copy what was sent, and always what was sent.  The online and/or
historical data is a guide, but nothing more.

So no, IMHO, it's not ethical to change it, if what you find online or in
historical data does not match what was sent.

73, ron w3wn

-----Original Message-----
From: CQ-Contest [mailto:cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Art
Boyars
Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2015 11:18 AM
To: cq-contest at contesting.com
Subject: [CQ-Contest] What's the difference...

... between using a "call history file" to store previous data (e.g., name,
section, etc.)...

...and looking it up on-line real time (or, for us OTs using the Callbook)?

Example: during NAQP CW last night, I looked up "Tom" to see what city he
was in.  (I like to see where people are in states of personal interest;
single-radio op's have time for this.)  I saw that his license name is
Timothy.

Of course, I did NOT change my log (I do not cheat, and, heck, maybe he
really did send "Tom"), but...

...would it have been be ethical to change it (right then) if I had a call
history file that had hinted that his name was Tim, and I used that info to
guess that "Tim" is correct?

If yes, would it have been ethical to change the name (DURING the contest)
based on Callbook info?

(Never mind the QSOs I had by hearing enough of a whisper of the other
station for my logging software to fill in the report from other-band QSOs
.)

73, Art K3KU
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