[UK-CONTEST] UBN failures
Rob Harrison
robharrison at g8hgn.freeserve.co.uk
Sat Jul 16 12:56:42 PDT 2011
Hi,
On VHF a lot contacts would be 39 most of the time!
Does sound a bit odd, he'd have to work everyone who entered to come out on
top though.
Needs investigating,
Bob G8HGN
----- Original Message -----
From: "Danny Higgins" <danny.higgins at keme.co.uk>
To: "'Christopher Plummer'" <plummerc42 at hotmail.com>;
<g3yyd at btinternet.com>; <uk-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, July 16, 2011 8:51 PM
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] UBN failures
>
> Readability 4 is defined as "readable with practically no difficulty"
> which
> is probably a bit optimistic in an 80M CC SSB contest!
>
> Danny, G3XVR
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com
> [mailto:uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Christopher
> Plummer
> Sent: 16 July 2011 20:20
> To: g3yyd at btinternet.com; uk-contest at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] UBN failures
>
>
> 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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