[CQ-Contest] Emails During a Contest

[Mike DeChristopher]

Recently I had the inverse happen. During the ARRL 10m Contest,
someone sent me the wrong abbreviation for his province. Now, I knew
what he *meant* but it wasn't what he *sent*. I logged what he sent. A
few hours later comes an email to me and ~15 others - not blind copied
mind you - with "sorry I meant to send [corrected abbrv]."

I deleted the email, left the log the way it was, and moved on. If he
had called me again on the air and explained the issue, or simply
duped me with the proper exchange, the QSO would have been good. But
email is email and radio is radio -- same for Jeff's situation and
anyone else's for that matter.

73,
Mike N1TA


On Mon, Apr 1, 2019 at 10:55 PM ku8e <ku8e at ku8e.com> wrote:
>
> I had a station who I worked during the WPX SSB contest send me an email during the contest asking what the number I sent him was. I guess he wasn't sure when he worked me.Do you think this is cheating? Personally I think this is cheating. Maybe I should forward that email to CQ? It really irks me when people blatantly cheat and think there are no consequences. Also there were way too many stations on 40 meters from Europe that were probably cheating by running some serious power. It's frustrating when you call someone who is 30db over S9 and they CQ in your face. It's not like I have a crummy antenna on that band plus I'm running an amp. Maybe someone in Europe can explain to me what I'm missing?Jeff KU8E Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone
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