[PaQSO] Log/Summary Sheet Submissions?

[Michael Coslo]

On Oct 7, 2009, at 10:11 AM, Hank Greeb wrote:

> For every other State QSO Party in which I've participated, the actual
> claimed score was never used by the scoring team.  The cabrillo file  
> was
> processed using some algorithm, or in a few cases, done manually, and
> the "real" score was calculated.

Our method is to take the info from the summary sheets, and generate a  
preliminary score that we try to publish as soon as possible after the  
deadline.

Then we go into the logs, and you would be surprised at how many you  
have to manually dig out because of discrepancies. Any contest that  
doesn't need to actually pull logs manually is probably using custom  
software.


> Am I too brash in asking why all the concern about how N1MM or other
> programmes calculate the claimed score?  Or, does the scoring team  
> take
> the claimed score as face value without checking?



I think I answered your question in your other post. But here is the  
condensed version:

There is never any good reason to submit innacurate results to any QSO  
party or contest. It's just part of good operating practice. Just use  
the on-line summary sheet, enter the correct values, and you'll get  
the correct score.




-73 de Mike N3LI -