[UK-CONTEST] UBN failures

[Christopher Plummer]

David,
 
To add my halfpenneth.  In a recent 80m  Club contest one particular contestant was giving every contact 47 or 48, he was hoping, I suspect, that I would log 58 or even 59 and thus get a Busted contact, and he would happily claim the contact as I gave him 59, or whatever my logging program prompted.  I have spoken to a number of other contestants from this session and this competitor has done the same to them.  I regard this as sharp practice and should be curtailed by a warning, surely every contact he made would not have been readability 4?
 
Did anyone else get the same treatment?
 
Chris G8APB
 

> Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2011 13:06:11 +0000
> From: g3yyd at btinternet.com
> To: UK-Contest at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] UBN failures
> 
> I see my 59 for all QSOs provoke the expected knee jerk re-action from 
> some contesters. The HF contesters worked out long ago that the rules do 
> not specify that the report has to be accurate. Even if the rules did, 
> how is it enforceable? QED give 59 saves typing at both ends and hence 
> removes a possibility of error in that part of the exchange.
> 
> Personally I think the RS(T) report should be removed from contests and 
> some do just that. It is the serial number and locator code that is the 
> real exchange in a VHF+ contest. Even the locator code can come from a 
> call history file so that leaves the serial number as being the really 
> unique part of the exchange.
> 
> 73 David G3YYD
> 
> PS just seen Stewart's post in similar vain.
> 
> 
> 
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