[CQ-Contest] Log what is sent

[Ktfrog007 at aol.com]

Gosh, do you think anyone will understand what you just wrote (and what is  
in the CQ WW FAQ)?
 
All those hundreds of emails for naught.
 
73,
Ken, AB1J
 
 
In a message dated 2016-09-30 3:07:08 P.M. Coordinated Universal Tim,  
jamesdavidcain at gmail.com writes:

> "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.  

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