[WriteLog] Question on location of a station

[Jerry Flanders]

Just my opinion:

I am not going to ask anybody to change his callsign exchange to suit 
some contest requirement that he didn't have a part in making.

I am also not going to worry about combing through my log files to 
detect possible anomalies like the one you describe.

I don't think it is right to change a callsign - whatever the guy 
sent is it, as long as I didn't mis-copy it.

If the contest committee is concerned, they could keep a list of 
calls+areas and do an automated correction on their end. Those robots 
can be pretty smart.

Jerry W4UK




At 03:25 PM 1/27/2013, DickT-W0RAA wrote:
>During the BARTG Sprint this weekend, I worked a friend, WL7RV,
>who lives here in Colorado Springs.  When he sent his call, Writelog
>showed him in Alaska.  (A mutual friend said the N1MM did the same
>thing).  Since I knew he was not in Alaska, I edited my Writelog entry
>to WL7RV/0.  It still showed him as Alaska.  Knowing I had a credit for
>a multiplier that wasn't actually a multiplier, I re-edited his call to
>W0/WL7RV and it then showed up properly as in the United States and
>not Alaska as a DX Multiplier.
>
>In any contest that he may enter, does he need to sign hic call as W0/WL7RV
>so that he shows up as in the lower 48 and not as a station in Alaska?
>
>I would assume that several people would perhaps like to know how to
>handle this situation.  Since I knew that Bob was NOT in Alaska, I felt that
>I needed to correct it so I wouldn't be claiming a multiplier that was not a
>true mult.
>
>Any comments from the contesters out there?  How can this be corrected so
>that he does not have to preface his call with a "W0/"?  Somebody has got to
>have run into this before and may know how to correct it.
>
>Dick - W0RAA
>My memory isn't as good as it used to be.
>Also, my memory isn't as good as it used to be.
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