[UK-CONTEST] Who loses points for bad QSO?

[Bob Henderson]

I agree with you Stewart.  Our contests are based upon two-way
communication, after all.  However, penalties mostly aren't applied this
way, only the station with the error in his log is penalised.

Gaming the system is certainly a risk.  I think it's rare but I do have one
personal experience.  A few years back, I worked a well known contester
during CQWW RTTY.   He was a double mult for me and I at least an entity
mult for him.  Knowing I would be unlikely to find another station from the
same entity or zone, he chose to send his call with one character wrong.
You may think this was a mis-copy but no, his call was sent incorrectly six
times.  A little detective work allowed me to correct the call post event,
so his ploy didn't work.  He achieved nothing but assassination of his own
character.  The depths to which some will stoop really can be quite amazing.

73 Bob, 5B4AGN

On 13 August 2011 08:07, Stewart Bryant <stewart at g3ysx.org.uk> wrote:

> On 13/08/2011 07:51, Chris G4FZN wrote:
> > If, during a contest exchange, station A copies station B's report and
> > locator all ok, but station B makes an error in logging station A's
> report,
> > is it always BOTH stations who lose points for that QSO, or just the one
> who
> > copied or transcribed the details wrongly? Therefore, for contacts that
> > appear in a UBN report sent to me following a contest, is it always
> correct
> > to assume the other station has lost the points for that QSO too?
>
>
> You would hope so other wise entrants would be gaming the system by
> not correcting readback errors, or even giving false corrections.
>
> If both loose the points it is in both parties interests to pursue the
> contact until both parties have the exchange correct.
>
> Stewart/G3YSX
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