[CQ-Contest] Log what he sends?

[Kelly Taylor]

The good news, if you see it that way, is your claimed score is only relevant to you, and perhaps 3830, if you choose to post. (I’d suggest, if you’re in a hotly contested region, either don’t post to 3830 or only post after the log deadline.)

The log checking process ignores everything but the category, sent exchange and the log.  It doesn’t look at your summary. 

It calculates your score based on your log. 

The only real penalty is if you think you’ve already got Zone 40 and stop trying, not knowing your Zone 40 guy was in Zone 39 the Q before you and Zone 41 the Q after (meaning he thought it was a serial number).

Hopefully the next guy clued him in there is no Zone 41. 

That being said, if the contest sponsor says to log what is correct, and not what was sent, then that’s the end of it. Sponsor’s decisions are final, right?

73, kelly, ve4xt 

Sent from my iPhone

> On Nov 30, 2017, at 07:52, Ria Jairam <rjairam at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> The problem I see in this case with "copying what is sent" is that
> your software will calculate your claimed score based on the zone
> claimed to be worked and will obviously be wrong if you log a zone
> someone else is in.
> 
> For obvious zones you can tell what zone someone is in, but for
> example US, Canadian and Russian stations it might not always be the
> case. For example if I operate from California I am zone 3 whereas
> software will fill it as zone 5.
> 
> I don't usually support this but it is clear that CQWW is a callsign
> copying contest and the exchange really doesn't matter. So let your
> log software just fill in what is there... I guess.
> 
> 73
> Ria, N2RJ
> 
>> On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 2:08 PM,  <w1rm at comcast.net> wrote:
>> Age old question.  ZF9CW was clearly sending 7 not 8 early in the contest.
>> When I worked him on another band, he sent 8.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> So do you log 7 and make the point that's what he sent or do you log the
>> correct zone, 8?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Pete, W1RM
>> 
>> W1RM at Comcast.net
>> 
>> 
>> 
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