[VHFcontesting] To submit or not to submit

[George Fremin III]

On Sat, Jan 27, 2024 at 02:17:21PM -0500, Doug Allen wrote:
> discussion got me thinking about the scoring again, and how a busted call
> or miscopied report penalized not only the person making the mistake, but
> the station worked, as well.


Please submit your logs.

We have processes that find most of these cases where folks send in
logs that have more errors than other logs.  And while the log
checking could remove credit for contacts / mults from other logs
mostly it does not chnage the order of finish. And that is the real
goal of the log checking - to make sure the order of finish is
correct.  We all make mistakes during the contest - all of us do.
There are very few logs in any contest that do not have errors in
them.  The log checking process is also very good at not affecting
other peoples scores for your errors.

If you work me and log me as K5TX I do not lose credit for that
contact.  Only you will lose credit for that contact.

Generally the more logs we have the better the checking.

And also it is one of the metrics that is used to determine if the
contest is 'healthy' - if folks stop sending in logs - the sponsor
might conclude that the contest is no longer needed.  ie. See the ARRL
UHF contest.

Numbers of submitted logs is one of the first (sometimes only) thing
that is brught up when folks want to know if a contest is 'healthy' or
growing.

-- 
George Fremin III - K5TR
geoiii at kkn.net
http://www.kkn.net/~k5tr