[UK-CONTEST] RSGB LOG INPUT

[Dave Sergeant]

On 30 Jul 2009 at 9:41, Clive GM3POI wrote:

> Andy,
>      The problem with that is the Station you work signing 
> /QRP will probably not put that in his entry, and therefore 
> you get a busted call. My guess is it's best to log as sent 
> in terms of xx/KL7 rather than change it to KL7/xx. This 
> certainly matters when it comes to LoTW as the ARRL software 
> can't work out that it could be the other way around. I have 
> had to re send Qs to get confirmation for DXCCs that the 
> other station had the opposite way around from me for 
> whatever season. 73 Clive GM3POI

There are two issues here. Firstly although these days most people sign 
TK/ rather than /TK, both are still in use and depending on the licence 
issued to the operator either may be the correct one (although if 
operating under a CEPT licence the TK/ is always the one which SHOULD 
be used). If the operator is sending /TK you should log it as that is 
what he is sending.

Regarding the unofficial suffixes like /QRP these form no part of any 
licence and have been added just because the operator decides to. In 
the UK at least the use of /QRP is questionably legal and is a practice 
many of us would want to be banned. /QRP is never logged here and I 
imagine many others do likewise. Contest adjudicators should recognise 
this and not penalise people for missing /QRP in a logged call - and 
logging software should also ignore it.

(and even as a QRP op myself I hate this practice, never send it myself 
even when working a QRP station and never put it on my QSL cards.).

73 Dave G3YMC

http://www.davesergeant.com