[CQ-Contest] Log what he sends?

[Ron Notarius W3WN]

I was talking about how YOUR software scores your log for YOU prior to submission.

73, ron W3WN




-----Original Message-----
From: Ria Jairam <rjairam at gmail.com>
To: Ron Notarius W3WN <wn3vaw at verizon.net>
Cc: Peter Chamalian <w1rm at comcast.net>; CQ-Contest Reflector <cq-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Fri, Dec 1, 2017 11:07 am
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Log what he sends?

There are some cases where they have to assume.

I'm operating portable from California, away from my home zone. I make
10 contacts. I accidentally send 5 because my log software is still
configured for my home QTH. I don't submit a log because I don't think
it's worth it. (I always do, but some ops simply don't because they
don't think they would "win" anything and they are just "giving out
points.")

So in that case the other end will get credit for zone 5 and not zone 3.

More to the point, I have worked a good few Russian stations that sent
a different zone from what the log software filled in. I would hope
that they also submitted a log. If not, there's really no way to tell,
other than maybe scraping that info from a callsign database.


Ria
N2RJ

On Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 10:55 AM, Ron Notarius W3WN <wn3vaw at verizon.net> wrote:
> Yes, but if I'm not mistaken, submitted logs are recalculated by the sponsor
> (CQ WW committee in this case) anyway. So why worry about your logging
> software's scoring calculation? It's not the final say in the matter.
>
> 73, ron W3WN
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ria Jairam <rjairam at gmail.com>
> To: Peter Chamalian <w1rm at comcast.net>
> Cc: CQ-Contest Reflector <cq-contest at contesting.com>
> Sent: Fri, Dec 1, 2017 9:39 am
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Log what he sends?
>
> 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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