[CQ-Contest] Log what was sent

[Ed Muns]

Log what you send and receive, not what you think should have been sent.  Log checking will quickly it figure out.  If you lie in your log, it just increases the workload of the log checker(s).  Your log should be a true recording of the contest.

73,
Ed W0YK
On Sep 27, 2016 12:07 PM, john at kk9a.com wrote:
>
> I would like to know what the WW committee thinks about your statement? 
> For example, one W6 station last weekend sent me 04 04 CA CA which printed 
> clearly on multiple decoders. This is not physically possible!  What about 
> the station that sends 001 OH? Logging an obviously incorrect zone does 
> not seem like the right thing to do and it can lead an incorrect zone 
> multiplier count. 
>
> John KK9A - W4AAA 
>
>
>
> To: CQ-Contest <CQ-Contest at contesting.com> 
> Subject: [CQ-Contest] Log what was sent 
> From: <kzerohb at gmail.com> 
> Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2016 04:49:01 +0000 
>
> On another online venue a fellow held the opinion that when someone sends an 
> inaccurate element of the contest exchange (ie., the wrong Zone for his 
> location in CQWW), that a contest operator should record the correct Zone, 
> NOT 
> the Zone that was sent to him. 
>
> I certainly would query the sender.  For example, if a station in Iowa sent 
> Zone “7” in CQWW (his IARU zone) instead of Zone “4” (his CQ Zone), but if he 
> confirmed Zone 7, then I feel that I am obligated to log what he sent. 
>
> After all, isn’t contesting all about our skill at accurately copying and 
> precisely logging  what was sent to us? 
>
> If that isn’t true, then why not just exchange callsigns and let our 
> computers 
> fill in the blanks? 
>
> “What year was I licensed in?  Damn, I forgot again.  I’ll make up a 
> number and 
> you never mind what I sent, just let N1MM  fill in the blank.” 
>
> 73, de Hans, KØHB 
> "Just a boy and his radio"™ 
>