[UK-CONTEST] Penalties

[Dave Sergeant]

Well this was driven through when I received my UBN for the recent Low 
Power contest. I used a paper log on site out of necessity, but was 
obviously a bit too hasty typing it into SD afterwards. Two of my three 
errors were purely my fault - a 599 incorrectly typed as 559 from the 
line above, and a 599 typed as a 598! At least I still had my paper log 
to show I should have double checked. In that contest the first two 
places in the 3W /P section were pretty close, without those two 
booboos I could quite well have come first.

Penalising harshly for errors has swings and roundabout, but you also 
have to bear in mind that everybody would have their scores similarly 
reduced so the final table position might not be affected that much.

73 Dave G3YMC

On 30 Aug 2012 at 17:55, G4FNL wrote:

> I think that the idea that new (or casual) competitors being put off
> entering a contest because of a penalty is a bit patronising. If a
> penalty system for wrongly logged exchange info was introduced (for RSGB
> contests) then it would surely make people more careful.


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