[CQ-Contest] Additional Penalty

[Joe]

I agree 100%
I always liked the penalty for not copying it correctly. I am really in 
the minority here too, for the level of penalty.
I'd love to see it be make a bad entry,, the Q before and after are 
removed. Zero points  their in the log so the 2 contacts for the other 
guys are still good. But for you no matter if they are new mults or 
whatever value of the 2 Q's you get zero points for them and no mult the 
Q's are gone as if never happened.

And take it further, There are now days with all the computer logging 
programs, there are absolutely no excuses for dupes. Unless again a bad 
log entry was made so it doesn't look like a dupe. I'd make dupes the 
same way as above.

But I'm mean.  But hey a rule is a rule. copy it right and no dupes. hello?

Joe WB9SBD
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On 4/13/2016 8:37 AM, Paul O'Kane wrote:
> On 13/04/2016 04:11, Radio K0HB wrote:
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>> Without overly belaboring the obvious, your success as a contester is
>> directly proportional how fast and accurately you can fill your log with
>> "good" exchanges. Lower accuracy = lower score.
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>> So what useful purpose is served by the retribution imposed in the 
>> practice
>> of reducing the score further with an "additional penalty"?
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> "Additional penalties", as K0HB describes them, appear to be
> applied more often to bust callsigns, rather than exchanges,
> in a few contests - including CQWW.
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> One argument in favour of them is that, as in multiple choice
> tests, they remove any reward for guessing - perhaps from a
> SCP list, or from a bust spot where you did not wait to hear
> the other station's callsign.
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> However, since such penalties apply equally to all entrants,
> there can be no cause for complaint - especially as contest
> sponsors are free to set their own scoring rules.
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> It's probably best to think of these rules as an incentive
> for accurate logging.
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> 73,
> Paul EI5DI
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