[CQ-Contest] Additional Penalty

Steve Sacco NN4X nn4x at embarqmail.com
Wed Apr 13 10:46:38 EDT 2016


I concur with Tom.

Consider the contest exchange to be a form of message handling - would 
we want to receive / send messages that we felt there was a fair chance 
wasn't accurate?

73,
Steve
NN4X


On 4/13/2016 9:18 AM, Tom Haavisto wrote:
 > Consider this (hypothetical) scenario.  I run like mad, or S&P, making
 > QSO's "fast and dirty", with no regard to accuracy, and I am happy with a
 >> 50 percent error rate.
 > Is that the message we want to send to folks when logging QSO's?
 >
 > The assumption being - make it up on sheer numbers, and let the score 
fall
 > where it may?  This way, no worries if a difficult Q is correct or not -
 > just play the odds, and hope for the best...  *Some* of them will survive
 > log checking...  Clearly, this is NOT where we want to go.
 >
 > The assumption being - reward accuracy, and penalize errors.
 >
 >
 > Tom - VE3CX
 >
 >




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