[UK-CONTEST] Reverse UBN

[Ray James]

--- On Wed, 19/9/12, Dave G3RXP <g3rxp at btinternet.com> wrote:

> Its very difficult to know if a station has sent an error or the received station has received it incorrectly but using the UBN reports of ALL stations and doing a sort on errors you can have a good idea if one particular station is consistantly sending errors for whatever reason.

It isn't difficult to spot an error if you record a contest to confirm on the receive side that a UBN can be wrong.
However, the "consultation" on the general rules stated recordings would not be accepted in defence of a UBN unless recorded by a CC member and as that struck me as "lack of trust", I opted not to bother submitting anything at all. Why bother if CC believe their peers will go to the effort of editing a recorded file to appeal a UBN!
If I've made a mistake, I'll hold my hand up and move on, if I haven't then I object to being penalised and losing precious points or a multiplier yet the one making the mistake loses nothing and keeps the points gained by our contact.
I'm against both losing the points, just the mistake maker.

I don't record every contest entry, just 23cm and SHF UKAC's.
The reason I started was the same as Andy GM4JR suffered with folk sending one thing over the air and stating something different in their entry.
Unlike Andy, I found such errors quite random. 
A simple mistake made probably 'cos in the excitement of the long range microwave contact, perhaps the one chance of a multiplier, a report is sent blindly and the mind has gone blank when trying to recall what was actually sent when completing the log. Folk have admitted to me that has happened to them when typing up or writing the log and wondering what the bloody hell did they just give, and guessed wrong.
It's not fair that that the non-mistaker maker is the one who loses the points and possible multiplier and is miss-trusted in defending themselves with a recording proving what was received was what was actually sent.
Me, I'm for fair play.

73 Ray GM4CXM