[CQ-Contest] Gotta love those IARU cut numbers

[Ria Jairam]

Who needs to copy cut numbers when we have fills!

:)

73
Ria, N2RJ
On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 7:06 PM Mike Smith VE9AA <ve9aa at nbnet.nb.ca> wrote:

> Art,
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> I never played in this years IARU, so have no dog in the fight.
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> I don't like cut numbers to begin with, but absolutely abhor cut numbers
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> in a mixed exchange contest (ie: the exchange cam be a number, an acronym,
> an abbreviation etc)
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> Was it truly 11? AA? Who knows.
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> In 99.99% of cases I just copy what is sent and let the volunteers sort out
> the log.
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> I try not to presume what someone "meant" to send.
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> In the recent RAC contest a funky W5 callsign sent me a serial # of 1153.
> I
> knew it couldn't be right, but that's what he sent.
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> Later in the contest, he was sending 600+ serial numbers.
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> Whatever.
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> Mike VE9AA
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> This is for the hundreds of you who did not read my long post on
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> 3830scores.com.
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> I had not studied the lists of HQ or IARU Officials mult's, and I don't
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> have them in my logging program.  Some time after I worked an IARU
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> "AC" mult I worked a K4 Special Event station (1x1 call) who sent
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> "AA" for his zone.  "OK," I thought, "if there are 'AC' officials, then
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> there could be AAs," and I logged it as AA.  Then I glanced at the zone
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> map, and saw what's in zone 11, and changed the entry from AA to 11 (DURING
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> THE CONTEST!!).
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> ENNTD, or whatever.
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> 73, Art K3KU
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> Mike, Coreen & Corey
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> Keswick Ridge, NB
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