[UK-CONTEST] UBNs - ARRL DX CW

[Tony G4NBS]

Hear Hear

Maybe thats the reason we still exchange proper reports on VHF. At least you
know when a QSO is real or not....

73
Tony

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Sent: 26 June 2012 12:27
To: Dave Sergeant
Cc: uK Contest Reflector
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] UBNs - ARRL DX CW


On the contrary ..it seems to me that  In this case the power exchange was
very useful.. It penalised the stations that were unable to copy it
correctly.
73 Ian

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On 26 Jun 2012, at 11:20, "Dave Sergeant" <dave at davesergeant.com> wrote:

> Just been looking at my UBNs for this year's ARRL DX CW contest - the
> results are now available on the ARRL site by the way.
>
> I made no errors at all myself from my 150 QSOs (not a serious
> entry...) so had no points deducted. There are a couple of stations who
> copied me as G3YEC, obviously relying too much on SCP. One station
> copied me as G3YMG, clearly a copying error. But more significant is a
> long string of stations who logged my power as 100 - it is pretty hard
> to get that out of 5W or 005, so they were clearly just guessing it.
>
> I always feel that the 'power' exchange achieves little apart from
> giving the bigger stations an ego boost - one reason why I have little
> enthusiasm for it. But you shouldn't just guess the answer...
>
> 73 Dave G3YMC
>
> http://www.davesergeant.com
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