[NLRS] ARRL September VHF Results - Query de KA0RYT

[Zack Widup]

What I know is that:

a) If the other station didn't send in a log, they give you the benefit of
the doubt (full QSO credit).

b) If you miscopied the other station and he did send in a log, the LCR
will note that you really worked a different station.

I've had this work a couple different ways. Say I worked KB0HH but logged
him as KB0HS.  The LCR would say I really worked KB0HH. And if I thought I
worked KB0HH but it was really W0ZQ due to both stations being in the
passband of my receiver, the LCR would say I was really in W0ZQ's log at
that time.

c) If I didn't show up in anyone's log at that time, the LCR will just say
I wasn't in the other station's log.

The LCR robot is pretty thorough. :-)

73, Zack W9SZ


On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 1:55 PM, <w0zq at aol.com> wrote:

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> Ron -
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> If you are a ARRL member you can see how your score was adjusted.  Go to
> the ARRL contest Log-Checking Reports website at
> http://www.arrl.org/contest-log-checking-reports  .   You can only see
> your own ..... I can't see yours for you.  If you are not an ARRL member
> you may not have access.
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> The September VHF Contest Log Checking Reports (LCR) are now posted as I
> can see mine.  In my case my score was reduced from a claimed score of 4736
> to 4176, or a fairly steep 11.8% reduction.   It seems that in VHF+
> contests that scores are more sensitive to logging errors than are HF
> contests .... perhaps this is in part to the scoring method.  According to
> my LCR I had three Q's in my log that the other station(s) did not.  These
> are "Not In Log" or NIL.   Its not clear as to if this was my mistake by
> logging them when I really didn't complete the Q or if they failed to log
> me as a proper QSO.  It did cause me to loose one grid-multiplier plus
> those three Q's where one was a 1 point Q, one was a 2 point Q and the
> third was a 4 point Q, or 7 points total.  So I was dinged 7 QSO points and
> one multiplier.  In addition I do not know if the League is adds a penalty
> for any NILs, I believe that they do for HF contests.   As you can see NILs
> are painful with respect to ones cont
>  est score so both stations need to be mindful of accurate logging.
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