[UK-CONTEST] RE - CQ Contest Rules.

[Roger Western]

Dear Puzzled,
Just RTFM ! ! !
It is permitted to change logged QSOs during and/or after the contest - BUT 
only if you know that you inadvertently logged something wrong which you did 
not transmit. See below!
73 de Roger/G3SXW.


-----Original Message----- 
From: Richard Allisette
Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2012 7:44 PM
To: Roger Western
Cc: uk-contest at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] RE - CQ Contest Rules.

Roger,
I am hoping to do 10m SBHP in the CW leg this year. Let us suppose that the 
band folds at 20.00z. I can then do any log alterations I think that need to 
be done in the four hours of the contest period remaining.
Am I reading this right? Seems daft but could a future strategy include 
making sure you finish before the contest period ends to "cleanse" your 
log - you might save more points than bashing on till midnight?

Puzzled of Guernsey,

GU4CHY

On 23 Oct 2012, at 19:23, Roger Western <g3sxw at btinternet.com> wrote:

> 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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