[NLRS] Log Checking Reports, Penalties

[Zack Widup]

When I'm operating portable in VHF contests (which is 99% of the time)
I always log on paper. Battery power is to be conserved and I can't
power a laptop with the battery and still have enough battery energy
to do the contest. My marine deep-cycle battery will usually just get
me through a 24 hour contest.

But N1MM Logger is free and is a great logger. I put all my QSO's into
the computer when I get home and let it convert the log to a Cabrillo
file. The only time this takes much time and effort is after the June
contest when I may have worked over 100 people on 6m. In most of the
other contests I can get the whole log entered into N1MM Logger and
converted in under a half hour. That includes double-checking the log
to make sure I read my own handwriting OK.
:-)

73, Zack W9SZ


On 2/7/14, Dr. Gerald N. Johnson <geraldj at netins.net> wrote:
>
>
> If you sent in a paper log like I have, it may be that the error was in
> transcription and we'll never work that one out. I REFUSE to use the
> computer on the air because even my laptop raises my noise floor with
> antennas on the roof tripod. So my log is on paper and I carefully make
> a more legible copy for submission. But if the rules against certain
> computer techniques were not in force (if its been in a computer it MUST
> be in Cabrillo format) I could, as I did before that rule use a spread
> sheet after the contest to type an absolutely readable log and use the
> sorting functions on the call columns and grid (probably in those days
> section) columns to find duplicates and the first grids per band, and
> then sort on date/time to get it back into the original order. But
> that's not allowed. So I SEND PAPER, when I participate. Being shown
> with a -1 score has not encouraged UHF contest activity from out here
> near the Boondocks.
>
> Activity is not great here, I have a VHF contest certificate for 1 band
> (2m) from a 2 band operation where I'm sure the 2m score was under 200
> points out of a 15K entry (6 was really good). I see in this contest
> report that one of the Midwest Division class winners had a score of 18
> points.
>
> Last I looked my -1 score has been deleted. I only sent the log in (on a
> post card) to encourage activity. With it gone that possible
> encouragement is gone. I'd have been better off napping or drinking the
> entire weekend than listening to hours and hours of noise sometimes
> modulated by mouse motions on the laptop.
>
> I think the log checking machinery is too aggressive about errors unless
> all QSOs are made by robots or robotic (like JT) software, then what
> operator skills are in use?
>
> 73, Jerry, K0CQ
>
> On 2/7/2014 2:03 PM, John (JK) Kalenowsky, K9JK wrote:
>>
>>
>> Ron (or other NLRSers who might be interested),
>>
>> If you are an ARRL Member with your call registered on the arrl.org web
>> site, you can access your Log Checking reports on-line at the
>> http://www.arrl.org/contest-log-checking-reports web page. It will show
>> your 'history' of Log Checking reports back as far as 2001 but it's only
>> been since June 2006 for the VHF Contests and 2009 for the August UHF. If
>> you're not a member or not registered, I believe the Contest Branch will
>> send reports to you upon request (though with the contest branch currently
>> being managed by the SeanDanWard team who have other responsibilities ar
>> HQ, you may not get an immediate response to your request).
>>
>>
>> For QSOs with 'busted calls' (such as if you logged K0ABC but the station
>> worked was W0ABC) or Not-In-Log, also know as NIL (you logged W0ABC
>> correctly but W0ABC didn't log the QSO in his log), a penalty of an
>> additional QSO removed is assessed IN ADDITION to the loss of the
>> un-matched QSO. This can cause the number of QSOs shown to be less than
>> the number of Multipliers shown. In extreme cases, this can lead to
>> negative numbers of QSOs on some bands (I think that may have happened to
>> Jon, W0ZQ, once) and even negative scores as I suspect Jerry, K0CQ, will
>> remind us has happened to him(but negative scores are usually not shows in
>> the results.)
>>
>>
>> I hope that helps/explains.
>>
>> 73, JK
>>
>>
>
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