[UK-CONTEST] RSGB LOG INPUT

[Roger G3SXW]

Logging programs mostly do not allow you to zero point a QSO. All you can do 
is mention it in the Remarks section of the cabrillo header and hope that 
the log-checkers pick it up. Log-checking is 98+% automated these days. Few 
'decisions' are taken.

And the other country which insists on a suffix instead of a prefix, I do 
believe, is Canada */VE.
73 de Roger/G3SXW.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "G3VDB (Jim)" <jimevans at g3vdb.com>
To: "'Don Beattie'" <g3ozf at btinternet.com>; "'Uk-Contest at Contesting.Com'" 
<uk-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2009 12:53 PM
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] RSGB LOG INPUT


> What happens if you edit the Cabrillo file to put the contact in twice 
> with
> both call formats and only count the contact once in the score?
>
> If the log checking software is verifying against the other log, one will
> fail the other will pass - you don't mind which and you have only counted
> the points once, just as if it were a duplicate. You may get a warning on
> submission but it is up to the adjudicators to decide what to do about it.
>
> If there is no penalty for duplicates or log errors that might work. If
> there is, then not a good idea!
>
> But that is trying to second guess the contest log checker and what it 
> will
> do. Who wrote the IOTA checker :-)) ?
>
> 73's all
>
> Jim
> G3VDB
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com
> [mailto:uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Don Beattie
> Sent: 30 July 2009 08:31
> To: Uk-Contest at Contesting.Com
> Subject: [UK-CONTEST] RSGB LOG INPUT
>
>
> Does anyone know the answer to this ?
>
> In the IOTA Contest there was a station in TK signing [own call]/TK rather
> than the required TK/[own call]
>
> Should I log this as received or does the contest checking software only
> accept the conventional structure of a call ?
>
> I'd prefer not to lose the mult !  (:-)
>
> 73
>
> Don, G3BJ
>
>
>
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