[UK-CONTEST] BERU UBN?

[Andy Summers]

So, I now have my UBN report for BERU. Many thanks to all the hard work from
the adjudicators and the software writers.

I've never received a UBN report before, so it's been enlightening. I've
never previously been able to see where my lost points have gone, so, at the
risk of looking like an idiot for the second time in as many weeks, I now
have some general comments about scoring.

The general HF rules state that any error at all results in the loss of all
points. There's no ambiguity here, but I'm questioning whether that should
continue to be the case now that software can do much of the donkey work.

Two of my Q's were broken by the SerRx being out by just 1. How can the
adjudicator be certain the sender wasn't looking at the wrong bit on his
logging screen? The difference between 10 & 11 (one of the examples) is also
quite distinct on CW. With my CW it probably was my fault, but it feels a
tad harsh to lose all the points in these instances. But I can also recall
plenty of instances in SSB Field Day where the sender omitted to append /P
to their callsign. Again, it seems harsh to lose all credit for the Q.

It also feels pointless having more than 1 point per Q if we continue with
the status quo?

Already looking forward to next year's BERU...

73 Andy, G4KNO.


On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Andy Summers <g4kno.mail at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sorry, I meant for BERU. Maybe I'm being a bit previous.
> Andy.
>
> On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 12:33 PM, Andy Summers <g4kno.mail at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Did anyone else not receive their UBN report? Maybe they're being sent in
>> batches?
>>
>> 73 Andy, G4KNO.
>>
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