[CQ-Contest] CQ WW DX Contests

[K9MA]

It's never happened to me, but if an operator sent zone 6, and then told 
me he was in California, I would simple delete the contact. Likewise if 
a G3 sent zone 27. Otherwise, I log what I hear.

73,
Scott K9MA



On 9/26/2023 2:18 PM, George Fremin III wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 25, 2023 at 10:04:41AM -0600, john wrote:
>> When you receive an obviously incorrect Zone (like the guy is from
>> CA and sends something other than 3), do you log what he sends, or
>> the correct Zone? You could be screwed either way, but logging the
>> correct Zone seems the lesser of the evils.
> You should log the zone that he is located in.
>
> Folks that say you should log what is sent are giving you bad advice.
>
> It is good advice not to use prefill databases or QRZ for this information.
> Never do that.
>
> But if N5KO calls me and send 59 6 I am going to ask him where he is
> located.  Because if he is really in zone 6 - I clearly missed his
> callsign and he would be using somethig like XE1/N5KO or similar and I
> want to get that part correct. If I assume that the logging progmram
> will fill it in from his callsign of N5KO then it would likley put
> zone 4 in my log, and that might be correct but it might not.  But if
> I ask him where he is he will tell me he is in California and I would
> now know to log him in zone 3.  Putting the zone 6 he is sending in my log
> is not useful or correct if he is located in California.
>
> While in general I would log what folks send me I would never log
> things that I know are wrong.  That is not what we are trying to do
> here - we are trying to log information that is correct.
>
> Think about it for a minute.
>
> If the contest exchange were signal reports and states would you sill
> log a 6 if that is what someone sends you instead of trying to get
> their state in the log?
>
> Many more examples could follow.
>
>

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Scott  K9MA

k9ma at sdellington.us