[UK-CONTEST] RE - CQ Contest Rules.

[Roger Western]

Look, chaps, let's all stop mis-stating what has been published. See:
http://www.cqww.com/rules_2012changes.htm

It is perfectly clear. But you do need to spend two minutes reading it!
Yes, it makes perfect sense, Brian (and others today)!
73 de Roger/G3SXW.

NEW RULE:
CQWW Rule III.13: Post-contest correcting of call signs by using any 
database, recordings or confirming QSOs is not allowed.

EXPLANATION:
When the contest period ends, do not use any sort of database, local or 
remote, to review and then modify the callsigns in your log prior to 
submission.

Use of QRZ.com, DX Cluster, RBN files, other call sign databases, friends’ 
or club logs, etc., are considered to be other data sources and are not 
allowed for post-contest call correction.

Having friends or experts who were not “the entrant” review the log also 
“counts” as a database (not permitted).

A recording of your own contest effort, whether digital or analog, is 
considered to be a database, even if you made the recording yourself.

Q: “After the contest I noticed a typing mistake. What should I do?”

You have to determine whether the call sign you logged is the call sign you 
sent during the QSO in question (see rule XII.2 below for more information). 
If you are certain that this is a logging error, AND that what you logged 
does not match what you actually sent, then make the correction. If the 
committee’s SDR file shows that what you submitted on your log does not 
match what you sent during the contest exchange, you are in violation of the 
rules.

Your decision must be based purely on your inspection of the log. You may 
not use any database or other resources to review your log



-----Original Message----- 
From: brian coyne
Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2012 6:33 PM
To: uk-contest at contesting.com
Subject: [UK-CONTEST] RE - CQ Contest Rules.



>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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