[CQ-Contest] Log what is sent

[James Cain]

> "I find this rule stupifying. Why do we bother sending the Zone at all? 
> This reinforces what I've long felt about CQWW -- that it's the dumbest 
> contest going. ALL you have to copy is the other station's call -- the 
> rest of it is auto-filled from call history files and country files! 73, 
> Jim K9YC"

 I'm not a lawyer and I do not play one on telly, but the CQ FAQ seems clear 
to me:

 Q: "I work a station and they do not know their CQ zone or they give me a 
serial number, what should I put in the log?

 "Log the zone based on their location."

 We "bother sending the Zone at all" because people operate "out of their 
Zone." Or their mind.

 OTOH -- sending 599 or 59 in every exchange: now, that's dumb.

 K1TN

>
> On Wed,9/28/2016 12:12 AM, Maarten van R wrote:
>
> Like David said, CQWW says you should log the correct zone based on the
> location, not what was send. Same thing with cut numbers used for CQ zone
> numbers.
>
> See:http://www.cqww.com/rules_faq.htm
>
> This contradicts with the "log what was send" rule but it actually seems
> fairly logical. If the other station doesn't submit his log, the 
> logchecker
> can not possibly know what was actually send but it does know what the
> correct zone number should be based on the location of the station.
> As others have asked, what happens when the other op does submit his log
> with the wrong number? Then the log checker does know what was send over
> the air.