[CQ-Contest] Additional Penalty

[ac0w at charter.net]

Ed,
Your very last line points to a key critical element "a successful two
way QSO". A successful two way QSO requires both a sending station to
accurately send and record that information along with a receiving
station to accurately receive and record that information. There are
plenty of times when then sending station either inaccurately sends
information or inaccurately records the information sent while the
receiving station accurately records that information. Because the
information in the two logs do not match and the receiving station is
assumed guilty and penalized despite the sending station being the
guilty party. 
To make matters worse for the innocent receiving station that is
penalized, the guilty sending station gets to receive credit for the
QSO.
This is where I have the issue of a penality, the station the caused
the error is not always the one that gets the penalty. Now I don't
have the solution on how to properly penalize the station making the
error, to me it is just morally wrong to assume people are guilty and
penalize them for what sometimes is an error by someone else.
Now maybe some other old timers will remember this (guess I fit that
group) some contests use to have in their rules the reason a QSO was
worth 2 points. 1 point was for accurately sending the information and
1 point was for accurately receiving the information. I'm suspect this
was dropped at some point in time when they realized there is no way
to determine if the information was accurately sent or not.
I'm fine with a penalty as long as the proper station is penalized.
Until then we need to return to what our legal system is based on,
"innocent until proven guilty".
BillAC0W 
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 Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2016 08:36:14 -0700
 From: "Ed Muns" 
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 Not every contest imposes penalties on incorrectly logged QSOs,
beyond
 losing credit for the QSO. Contests that do impose penalties are
simply
 requiring higher accuracy, in balance with speed and quantity. It's
just a
 rule.

 Radiosport is unique compared to basketball, baseball, bowling and
most all
 sports because competitors must work together as a team to complete a
 successful two-way QSO with each other.

 Ed W0YK
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