[UK-CONTEST] RE - CQ Contest Rules.

[Bob Henderson]

Brian

If you make a genuine typo and correct it before submitting your log nobody
will know.  If you do so outside of the contest, it is between you and your
conscience.  Personally, I doubt CQ WW committee would care anyway.  This
is not what the rule is intended to deal with.

Your suggestion that use of SCP is cheating is entirely arbitrary.  The
rules do not prevent use of SCP.  You may wish they did and so might I but
this doesn't make its use "cheating".

Rules don't have to be the rules we would choose.  They are the rules the
sponsors consider appropriate.  Participants decide whether to follow them
based upon the likelihood of sanction and their conscience.  Conscience
will play a bigger part for some than others.

T'was ever thus.

Bob, 5B4AGN

On 23 October 2012 17:33, 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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