Topband: ARRL 160

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The addition of an X is a method that is not in the Cabrillo
specification.  It is an extension that the CQ WW contest has added and is
generally not supported by other contests.

I realize this creates lots of confusion (part of why I was against their
implementation of it).

The right thing to do is submit what you had in your log after the contest
(incorporating any notes you may have made about corrections) and let the
log checkers figure out it all out. This includes operating outside the
maximum number of hours - or improper 10 minute rule implementation.

Tree N6TR

On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 11:55 AM, W0MU Mike Fatchett <w0mu at w0mu.com> wrote:

> If you remove the line completely the other guy gets a busted QSO!  You
> put an X in front of the line.  Not sure about the exact formatting.
>
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> On 12/5/2016 12:25 PM, Ward Silver wrote:
>
>> If the web upload app for log submission finds something in a QSO: line
>> it can't deal with...
>>
>> > The ARRL submission AP tells you to correct the mistakes rather than
>> remove or unclaim them and that is NOT RIGHT!
>>
>> Point of clarification - the app does not really know anything about a
>> particular call.  It just knows that the data it found in what it thought
>> was a call sign field did not look like a call sign.  (You would get a
>> similar error if the Sent Call data is bad or the RST isn't an RST.)  It is
>> up to the log submitter as to what to do about that.  If the QSO: line is
>> just mis-formatted, rearranging the information to satisfy the Cabrillo
>> format is perfectly OK.  If the call sign is busted (from typo, mis-copy,
>> or whatever), my suggestion would be to remove the line entirely. Same
>> thing if the the section abbreviation is not valid.
>>
>> 73, Ward N0AX
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