[UK-CONTEST] UBN Reports

[ANDY COOK]

Olof said 
 
> I assume you do a lot of running from 5B. With low power and wet strings I
> do almost all S&P. The biggest frustration for me is those who tell me I am
> a dupe when I am not. I think that what happens is that they run at speed
> and believe everything they hear is working them while I actually may have
> worked someone 500Hz away from them. I miss a qso and perhaps a multiplier
> and he gets a NIL or we both waste time while I try to convince him
> otherwise. The very obvious solution: just log the dupes, fast and smoothly.
> Occasionally - but rarely ;-) - I may have had his call wrong first time I
> worked him, such as logging SH5HH in stead of S55HH when he was running at
> 60wpm. Also in that case the simple solution would have been just to log
> again and ignore the dupe warning.

I agree with Olof that folks running and assuming that everyone they hear in their passband are working them is a significant cause of NILs. I ran an analysis of this year's M6T CQWW CW Multi Single log against all the eQSL entries on eqsl.cc. At the time I did it there were about 850 QSOs recorded on eqsl.cc for CQWW CW against a total QSO count of nearly 5700. I was surprised to find about 5 entries in eqsl.cc which were not in our log from our MULT station. They were generally early in the contest where our Mult station was trawling up/down the band hoovering up the easy mults. We called and worked one station, but someone else close by also thought that we were working them. Something to be very careful about!
 
73,
 
Andy, G4PIQ