[CQ-Contest] Log what was sent

[john at kk9a.com]

Thanks Ed for the official WW RTTY committee input. If my aforementioned
station gave out the wrong zone to everyone and CQWW noticed this, I am
sure that my QSO would count by logging what was sent.  However, what
happens if I was is first contact and the next guy that he worked explained
he was sending the wrong zone and then the station sent zone 3 for all
subsequent QSOs. Not only do I loose the contact, I get hit with the big
CQWW penalty. It is also possible that he just made a sending error during
my contact. I have had a well known contester on this list accidentally
send me the wrong precedence in sweepstakes when he operated at different
power level than in previous years. Luckily I noticed him giving a
different report to others. Finally, lets say that I did log a zone 3
station as zone 4, since that was what he sent. My log shows that I no
longer need zone 4 so I will not make any effort to to obtain this mult
(obviously unlikely since zone 4 is very common but possible).

John KK9A - W4AAA

Sent from my Smartphone.

On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 7:40 PM, Ed Muns <ed at w0yk.com> wrote:

> 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
> >
>
>