[UK-CONTEST] Super Check Partial.

[David Ferrington, M0XDF]

For what it's worth, from someone pretty new to contesting and without  
the experience and skills of someone like Roger, who I must admit to  
rather idolising (love the books Roger)
I use SCP, or the Minos equivalent (which really is just previous  
logs) as an aid to turning the beam - not being very good with locator  
squares yet, the location the call was last in helps to zero in on  
them. Sometimes they have moved but generally it's about right.
I must admit to then using it to help identify the call (this is Phone  
mind you) - I won't log it as G4XYZ if I don't hear it correctly, just  
because it's got XYZ on the screen, but having previous locator and  
call together give me some confidence I heard it correctly - if I'm  
not hearing it, I don’t assume. Also, I'm one of those that gives  
reasonable reports and not just 59, but then that's quite common in VHF 
+ contests.
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73 de M0XDF

On 4 Sep 2009, at 11:07, Roger G3SXW wrote:
> 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.