[UK-CONTEST] UBN errors

Peter Bowyer peter at bowyer.org
Mon Mar 5 05:02:32 PST 2012


On 5 March 2012 11:05, Rob Harrison <robharrison at g8hgn.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I did this with one I had, as previously posted on here. (557 "sent", 57
> received, on SSB)
>
> The sending station confirmed he'd made a typo' and we both contacted the
> adjudicator. Whilst it didn't affect my position in the table for that
> contest, the adjudicator maintained " on the balance of probability" he was
> right, and wouldn't acknowledge an misjudgement was made . Hardly confidence
> boosting.

He's right. His job is to apply adjudication guidelines and use his
best judgement to make sure the results list is in the right order.
When there's a tiny margin between two significant positions it might
be worthwhile entering into discussions about one individual bust, but
that's extremely rare.

Peter G4MJS


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