[RTTY] GEROGE vs GEORGE

[David Levine]

Jamie,

Yes it was TOM vs T0M and people did get dinged for that one initially.
Anyone with T0M (with a zero) didn't have their contact counted because it
was submitted as TOM (with the letter) vs what was sent. After it was
discussed here the results were reprocessed and those that had T0M were
given credit. Thanks to Ed, W0YK, for addressing that in the 2010 Oct
Sprint!

It's also the reason I posted here since I think the same thing could happen
and maybe Ed or whoever handles the log checking could look at it from the
start vs after they go through the effort of processing everything to have
to reprocess it if that is the appropriate solution.

I didn't run into anyone sending ARK that I recall or that I logged. There
were 2 or 3 ops that seemed slow to have a drop off at the start and/or the
end of their transmission. I didn't use any call history for the contest so
nothing was pre-populated for me that I needed to review and was just
logging what came across the screen.

73 - David

On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 9:18 AM, Jamie WW3S <ww3s at zoominternet.net> wrote:

> one guy was sending ARK also, not sure if he dropped the M on purpose or
> not, log checking sure will be fun to watch on this one....wasn't it last
> year someone was sending T0M (zero) instead of TOM ??!?! I seem to recall
> no
> one got dinged for that one....
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Levine
> Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2011 8:21 AM
> To: RTTY Reflector
> Subject: [RTTY] GEROGE vs GEORGE
>
> Hopefully no one takes this as cheating or publishing information to impact
> the outcome of the contest. I'm doing this because I've run into this
> multiple times in a RTTY contest before with the latest being 0 (zero) vs O
> (letter) in an operators call. Everyone always says to "copy what was
> printed" and I believe that too. Anyway, here's the story...
>
> An operator last night, that I see no evidence is on this mailing list, was
> sending his name as GEROGE vs GEORGE. I even sent in my exchange that I
> hope
> he knows he has a typo in his macro. I asked for a repeat and then watched
> him work the next 2 stations as he was calling CQ, sending GEROGE each
> time.
>
> Now 1 of 2 things can happen from this. He manually mistyped his name in
> the
> macro but has it correct in whatever his logging program is going to use to
> generate his cabrillo file. If that is the case, his log will show GEORGE
> and I will have GEROGE. Or, his macro used the same typo that his log
> program will use and I'll get a match. I guess a 3rd option is he doesn't
> even send in his log.
>
> For folks that either pre-filled or manually entered it in their log as
> GEORGE I guess there's the same shot of being dinged if he submits GEROGE.
> For those of us that copied GEROGE but he submits GEORGE, we could get
> dinged. Or the contest checker folks can be aware of this and be on the
> lookout for the specific call and handle it appropriately in the log
> checking.
>
> K2DSL - David
>