[UK-CONTEST] Super Check Partial.

[Roger G3SXW]

Brian - I totally identify with your thinking, old man. For a long time I 
was dead against Super Check Partial, a crutch which should make the entrant 
'Assisted'. Some years ago the 3A's Contest group made our own internal SCP 
of all calls worked in AFS over several years. This seemed to me fine: it 
was from our own logs and was created by us. But this world-wide approach 
relies on others to build the data-base.

But in more recent times I've given into the pressure to accept SCP as a 
normal contesting tool. The VooDudes use it. But so far we have not 
contributed to it. Double standards maybe, but this helps solve my 
conscience about it, to some extent!

A practical (rather than esoteric) down-side is that it leads to logging 
Busted calls. I hear 'G4OD?' in the pile-up and see 'G4ODV' on my screen. In 
fact it is G4ODU (for example) who is calling me but he is not listed in the 
SCP. We should never guess and should never rely on the SCP screen to 
complete the call-sign, but my Goodness it is so tempting to do so, in the 
heat of battle.

As to waiting until the dead-line before submitting so as to check your 
logged call-signs, that must be plain daft. Not all contestants send in a 
log so at best you get a positive confirmation of a logged call but you 
cannot discover Busted calls. I heard some years ago that BCC runs their 
logs through a library of international call-books. Surely that too is a 
step too far - this should be about contest operating, not I.T. skills.
73 de Roger/G3SXW.






----- Original Message ----- 
From: "brian coyne" <g4odv at yahoo.co.uk>
To: "UK Contest" <uk-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 12:14 AM
Subject: [UK-CONTEST] Super Check Partial.


>I guess many of you will have received the request from Bob WA1Z for your 
>logs.
>
> I don't feel comfortable about it, am I wrong not to wish to do it as I 
> know that many do use it and, after all, is it really any different to me 
> looking at calls already worked during a contest for a clue in times of 
> hard copy?
>
> If the other guy can't get my call after a couple of tries I really don't 
> like the guessing games when he is obviously using SCP and prefer to try 
> him again later.
>
> It might be a contesting generation thing, we of the older generation tend 
> to follow what our elmers taught us. I recall as a contesting rookie, 
> talking after one contest to a well known and respected contester who 
> still posts here very regularly. The subject was about a station who had 
> been sending at a superfast speed and I just couldn't be sure of the c/s 
> so I asked him what that guys c/s was.(*) He responded to the effect my 
> question was not playing the game, just be true to yourself and record 
> what you heard. At the time that made me feel quite small, but it was good 
> advice
> which I have followed ever since. No need to ask him what he thinks of 
> guys who record entire contests or wait until deadline to submit logs in 
> order to check the c/s list of 'received logs'
>
> How do you feel about it, do you send them off or not?
>
> 73  Brian 5B4AIZ.
>
> (*) I got it wrong.
>
>
>
>
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