[CQ-Contest] 2014 SSB Sweepstakes Scoring Question

[Steve Lott]

Wes,

first off yes your score is very respectful and you are congratulated !!!

second I was always pretty sure and still am
that SS mugs are delivered to anyone that sends the check with a summary
sheet claiming a sweep

cheers!
steve
KG5VK

ps this year we will once again be operating at W5RU
for SS



http://www.KG5VK.com
My Ham Radio Friends


On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 10:53 PM, Ron Notarius W3WN <wn3vaw at verizon.net>
wrote:

> I would suggest contacting the Contest Desk at the ARRL and explain what
> happened.  Include a copy of your log, since they may not have ready access
> to what you submitted for SS.
>
> If this was an error (or more correctly, an oversight) with the log
> checking
> software, and your QSO was actually valid, I would hope that you would get
> credit for a Clean Sweep mug (presuming that they still have some in stock,
> of course)
>
> Good luck!
>
> 73, ron w3wn
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: CQ-Contest [mailto:cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of
> Wes
> Plouff
> Sent: Friday, June 19, 2015 6:35 PM
> To: cq-contest at contesting.com
> Subject: [CQ-Contest] 2014 SSB Sweepstakes Scoring Question
>
> Hello to the CQ-Contest list! I have a question about a possible
> one-time issue with ARRL Sweepstakes scoring. I'm wondering if others
> have seen the same issue. I've sent an e-mail to contests at arrl.org with
> no response after a week.
>
> In the 2014 SSB Sweepstakes, I worked W1AW/1 in Rhode Island and W1AW/5
> in Mississippi. W1AW/5 was my only contact in MS, and I thought I had
> contacted all 83 sections. As a small-time contester, I was thrilled to
> make a clean sweep.
>
> Well, at my club banquet in June, when coffee mugs were handed out, it
> turns out none of us who thought we had clean sweeps were credited by
> the ARRL. So I looked up my logcheck file. It turns out that the log
> checking software marked W1AW/5 as a dupe, thus invalidating my MS
> multiplier and clean sweep. One of the other club members reported the
> same had happened to him.
>
> I'm not upset at this, my final score is still respectable, but I am
> curious. This may have been a glitch because W1AW/portable operation
> during the ARRL Centennial year was unique to 2014. I'm wondering: have
> any other hams gotten into a situation where contacts with multiple
> W1AW/?? callsigns were invalidated by the checker? Has anyone heard a
> good explanation about why such contacts should or should not be counted
> as dupes?
>
> 73,
>
> Wes Plouff AC8JF
> Royal Oak, MI
>
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