[RTTY] BARTG HF Contest 2015 Preliminary Results

[Michael Therrien]

I concur fully.

I am thoroughly baffled by discrepancies of HOURS noted in my RBN data.

I may not participate in this contest again unless the fairness and
adjudication issues can be adequately resolved.

Mike N1MD

On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 5:42 AM, pcooper <pcooper at guernsey.net> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I am not sure that this is a good idea, and probably requires a little
> more analysis before making this move.
>
> As has been noted, there are FOUR instances of the time in each QSO, but
> the logged time is really of little or no consequence.
>
> Proper contesting software will allow the user to transmit the time as
> part of the exchange, and will keep it at that same time if repeats are
> needed - and they were in many cases, with me at least.
>
> I wonder how many of these logs that were off by more than 1 minute were
> not compiled using one of the major contesting programs?
>
> I know Writelog handles it correctly, and I assume that N1MM and some of
> the others do too.
>
> Looking at my RBN (from the first pass), I did note several deductions
> where the time was off by a minute or two, but what was more concerning
> were the number of contacts that appeared in the RBN that were off by a
> large number of minutes.
> I had a couple that were something like 2h 40m off, and at least one was
> from a major contest station, which makes me suspicious.
>
> The time as sent is pretty much arbitrary, and one only has to copy what
> was sent, not the ACTUAL time, but I would guess most serious contest
> entrants will have synched their shack PC at the start of the contest, or
> more likely have an app that keeps the PC clock synched all the time.
> I am willing to concede that I may well have entered a wrong time from a
> few stations, especially given the awful conditions that were present
> during the contest, but I really can't understand why I would be so far off
> on a few.
>
> It would be interesting to know what software the logs that were off by a
> minute or two were running.
>
> I don't have access to my RBN here at work, but I will check it again when
> I get home, and see what it shows about times being off by so much.
>
> 73 de Phil GU0SUP
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