[RTTY] RTTY WPX AA5VU SOAB HP

Dick Kriss aa5vu at sbcglobal.net
Mon Feb 11 05:13:39 EST 2008


Ed P49X (W0YK),

I followed your recommendation and resubmitted using mycall rather than
051.   It will be a busted QSO for me but may help the person that gave me
the 051 report for my QSO #365.

Thanks for the Q's the suggestion.

73 Dick AA5VU


On 2/11/08 12:14 AM, "J. Edward (Ed) Muns" <w0yk at msn.com> wrote:

> Hi, Dick.  (First of all, thanks for the four contacts this weekend!)
> 
> On your QSO elimination below, this will guarantee the other station gets a
> NIL penalty.  I'd recommend you put the QSO data back in and resubmit your
> log.  That way, there is a good possibility that Paulo's log checker will
> NOT give the other guy a NIL penalty.  It will see that your log has a QSO
> at the proper time but YOU busted the call sign.  If the robot won't accept
> a serial number as a "call sign", then put in your own call sign to have a
> valid call sign, but result in the log checker not counting the QSO for you,
> but still validating the QSO for the other station.  Especially if you did
> get the serial number properly logged.
> 
> In general, is it always best to never eliminate anything from your log.
> The various log checking software, and the log checkers themselves, go to
> great lengths to deal appropriately with these issues.  And, to help them do
> their job, they need all of our log data, not just what we think is
> relevant.
> 
> 73,
> Ed - P49X (W0YK)
> 




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