Topband: ARRL 160

[Tree]

If a station busts your callsign or QTH - they will lose credit for the QSO
- not you.

If they badly mangle your callsign - it is possible you might end up with a
not-in-log - which results in a penalty of an additional QSO.

As practical examples:

If they copied KA1O instead of KA1J and have your QTH correct - your QSO
will count and they will have a busted callsign.

However, if they copy your call as K1AO - then you are probably going to
get a not-in-log.  This happens to all of use and we lose a QSO or two when
perhaps we shouldn't - but it does reward those who make an effort to try
and get someone who obviously has our callsign wrong to get it corrected
while still in the QSO process.

Tree N6TR

On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 2:07 PM, Gary Smith <Gary at ka1j.com> wrote:

> This chatter has got me thinking about
> something I have wondered often. Seems
> like this might be a good place to ask
> about it.
>
> What happens if the other station copies
> your call or info wrong? Do both scores
> take a hit?
>
> For instance; I work W1AW he copies KA1J
> and copies CO instead of CT.
>
> Or... W1AW copies KA1O and CT.
>
> Both stations send in their logs. Would I
> take a hit if the other operator gets it
> wrong?
>
> So many times during the contests
> now-a-days people don't acknowledge the
> contact and immediately go back to CQ TEST
> or scroll on by if they are S&P & I'm in a
> run. I've often wondered if there is a
> penalty to both sides or if the robot
> looks for a match and only penalizes the
> one who made the mistake.
>
> 73,
>
> Gary
> KA1J
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