[UK-CONTEST] RE - CQ Contest Rules.

[Roger Cooke]

When I am in a contest I don't have time to "edit" the QSO as such, that's why I have a piece of paper and
a pen, make notes of what I wish to amend after the contest and then do it immediately ( otherwise I forget 
what the note means! ) after the contest What's wrong with that?   As Chris SJJ says, it is easy to mistype
when in a hurry. His call is typical of the type of Freudian slip I make. I might type in G3SSJ, finger trouble
not copying problems, so I change it before submitting the log. I see nothing wrong in that.

  What I do see as wrong, and the Webinar seems to condone it, is working split in a contest. That should NOT
be allowed in my opinion, merely because of the commotion and frustration that several people doing the same
will cause. 

 While I am on my OAP Soapbox, I would also make it a rule to give your call on every QSO. Running is fine
but it should be a rule to ID on every QSO. Another thing! handicaps or in some instances, disqualification if
the transmission has bad clicks on CW, and splatters badly on SSB ( overprocessing is rife! ).

There! I feel better now, must get my BP pills and go and have a lie-down and a fairy cake in a darkened room.



Regards from Roger, G3LDI
Swardeston, Norfolk.




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> From: brian coyne <g4odv at yahoo.co.uk>
>To: uk-contest at contesting.com 
>Sent: Tuesday, 23 October 2012, 17:33
>Subject: [UK-CONTEST] RE - CQ Contest Rules.
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>>p.s. what's SCP?
>>G3LVP
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>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.
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>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.
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>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!
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>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.
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>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.
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>Sometimes reasonableness and common sense get left behind.
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>73  Brian 5B4AIZ / C4Z -  
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