[UK-CONTEST] Contest logger comparisons

[QUENTIN COLLIER]

Thanks for the input Oliver - that's pretty much the problem as I now understand 
it. 


The Wintest developers may well claim that it isn't a bug - but a "service 
feature" which results in the outgoing serial number as logged being different 
from the outgoing serial number as sent looks very like a bug to me! In 
practical terms, it means that in adjudicating NFD I am having to put in place 
procedures (which will significantly increase the complexity and time of 
adjudication) to make sure that entrants don't get unfairly docked points for a 
fault that is actually at the other end of the QSO. Whether that position is 
sustainable in the longer term remains to be seen.

73,



Quin G3WRR


----- Original Message ----
From: Oliver Bock <dj9ao at gmx.net>
To: uk-contest at contesting.com
Sent: Saturday, 18 June, 2011 16:06:57
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] Contest logger comparisons

Hi Alan,

i believe this refers to certain scenarios in a M/S environment. Wintest, as 
N4ZR also notes, 

does not "reserve" a serial number for any of the stations running in such an 
environment. 

Due to that, I think, it may be that e.g. the running Operator sends a 
particular number and 

before he enters the QSO a multiplier station on another band enters a QSO with 
exactly that 

number.
The Win-Test developers have repeatedly explained that this is not a bug, but a 
result of the 

particular way Win-Test handles M/S in its network.

73
Oliver  DJ9AO/M0TAO
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