[WriteLog] Contacting a contact to get correct SN

[DickT-W0RAA]

Well, John, you may have opened a real can of worms here, but it needed to 
be done.  If a station contacts another station by phone, e-mail, or 
whatever means, in order to get a received number or "whatever", corrected 
before sending in the cabrillo file, then that station should be 
disqualified from the contest.  Maybe the contest operators who monitor the 
WW series of contests (or any contest for that matter)  should take a close 
look at that procedure and make a determination as to whether or not it's 
legal as pertains to the rules of the contest.  In simple terms, it's 
cheating, even if it was 8 minutes after the contest started.  He should 
have submitted it as he received it and taken the busted QSO.

Dick
W0RAA



> My first contact in the CQWPX RTTY Contest was with W0QG. In my log I
> recorded 599 as to his Serial, so I contacted W0QG to obtain the correct
> serial. This contact was made 8 minutes after the start.
>
I don't know how to ask this without inciting a flame war, but aren't
you supposed to obtain the correct call sign and serial number DURING
the contest?

-- 
John Griswold, KK1X
mailto:kk1x at verizon.net