[CQ-Contest] CQ WW CW Contest

[jpescatore at aol.com]

I agree with George on the "ask for repeat" point - if more people did that, then fewer would bust my state as MD when I was operating remotely from VA. Prefills are not always correct, so if I copy unusual info I do try to get fills. That will catch the one-off sending or copying error, not the logging software having the wrong info in it.
But, as far as logging information that is correct, if I get a repeat on an obviously unusual value, what is correct is what was sent. For all I know, some 6 land call is operating a station in Maine - in many cases, you don't know what is correct, you only know what was sent.
One obvious example is the IARU contest where a lot of casual ops send CQ Zones, not IARU zones. They will often repeat the CQ zone when asked for a fill. 
This is a good issue for contest sponsors to be more explicit about - kinda like log dupes or not used to be a question. 
73 John K3TN

K5TR said:
> 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?