[UK-CONTEST] BERU UBN?

[Paul O'Kane]

On 19/07/2011 10:45, cris at gm4fam.plus.com wrote:

> That doesn't make sense Paul - we DO lose points for getting serials
> wrong, and big time.

It makes sense to those who recognise sense.
We don't lose points - there is no penalty for
getting serials wrong.  On the other hand, we
gain points when we get the callsign and exchange
right.  In CQWW, there is a penalty for callsign
errors.  There is no penalty in RSGB HF contests
for any logging error.  There used to be a
penalty for unmarked dupes.


> Someone (dunno who) once said "better to be approximately right than
> precisely wrong"

This could equally apply to callsigns.  What
is special about callsigns that is not special
about exchanges - while contesting?


>  especially those new entrants we are trying to encourage.

That's a red herring - we are not encouraging
new entrants to be casual about logging.  They
must be encouraged to be accurate.


> And while there are software malfunctions around, logs should definitely
> have some manual intervention (John LZQ's QSO with John VE3EJ is a first
> class example).

As I mentioned, this is an entirely separate
issue.  There should be a penalty when there
is a difference between what was sent and what
was logged as sent.


73,
Paul EI5DI