[UK-CONTEST] RE - CQ Contest Rules.

[Richard Allisette]

Hi all,

Just catching up with this debate. I made a conscious decision not to use SCP in last year's CQWW CW. It made me focus on getting the call correctly and I doubt if I will be convinced to use it this year.
It's not compulsory and I don't think it's as useful as people imagine it to be.

73 Dick GU4CHY

On 23 Oct 2012, at 18:33, brian coyne <g4odv at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> 
> 
>> p.s. what's SCP?
>> G3LVP
> 
> Ken
> SCP (SuperCheck Partial) is a database file which can be incorporated into your contest logging file.
> The database is compiled by scrutinising logs from previous contests to extract the callsigns of active contesting stations. On the CQ Contest Reflector we see requests from the compilers of this database after just about every major (and not so major) contest requesting logs to capture any new calls which may stray into the fold.
> 
> This database can be called into a window to check callsigns the contester is not sure about during the event - hence my comment about guessing games.
> 
> As for the comment about using my full call - well, imagine if they cannot get just 3 characters/letters correct how much more trouble would I get using a combination of six!
> 
> So, because it is not barred by the rules (in fact it is welcomed and used by many) it is ok to cheat legally whereas to make an alteration of a typo, marked at the time of making it, at a later time after the contest is now regarded as cheating! Make sense to you? - not to me.
> 
> I will repeat what I wrote earlier . The correction is  what I actually sent, as per the rules, not something that I made up, guessed at or referred to another source to discover.
> 
> Sometimes reasonableness and common sense get left behind.
> 
> 73  Brian 5B4AIZ / C4Z -  
>  
> 
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