[UK-CONTEST] STROKE QRP SHOULD I LOG IT?

Chris G3SJJ g3sjj at btinternet.com
Sat Apr 10 23:52:46 PDT 2010


I fully agree. I only respond with the callsign and would never log /QRP.

73 - Chris G3SJJ/QRO


Nigel G3TXF wrote:
> Good question, Alex!
>
> Rightly or wrongly I (virtually) never put "/QRP" into a
> log, be it on a DX-Ped or in a Contest. Several stations,
> such as HB9FAX just love sending /QRP in all sorts of
> circumstances. HB9FAX was around in a recent 80m CC too. But
> no, I didn't put "/QRP" into my log. "/QRP" is not part of
> the callsign. It's just a largely irrelevant item of
> time-wasting verbiage by the sending station.
>
> I would expect that any "good quality contest adjudicating
> software" would simply ignore any "/QRP" stuff at either end
> of the QSO. [Even if the contest adjudicating software
> doesn't ignore "/QRP", I will continue to do so, and happily
> lose points as a result - thanks!]
>
> 73 - Nigel G3TXF/QRO
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com
> [mailto:uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Alex
> GM3ZBE
> Sent: 10 April 2010 22:02
> To: uk-contest at contesting.com
> Subject: [UK-CONTEST] STROKE QRP SHOULD I LOG IT?
>
> Hi
> In the last 80M CC CW contest I worked a YU who signed /qrp.
> Should I log him as  YU***/qrp, since that was what he sent?
> If I don't do I lose the point?  Presumably his entered
> callsign for the contest is not deemed to be suffixed /qrp?
> Alex
>   


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