Below is my score from the RDXC contest after my bad calls, bad exchanges and not in the log penalties my final score was a BIG "0" !!!!!! Now that is a humbling experience, I had limited time in the contest and only made 24 QSO's. One would think what could go wrong with 24 contacts.....below is the answer.
VE3WDM claimed and confirmed results in RDXC-2010:
Entry : SOAB-CW-LP
C l a i m e d: C o n f i r m e d:
QSOs Points DXCC Obls Total QSOs Points DXCC Obls Total
Total : 24 122 20 2 2684 8 0 7 1 0
14 : 22 114 18 2 6 0 5 1
21 : 2 8 2 0 2 8 2 0
Penalties for:
bad calls = 6
bad exchanges = 6
not in log = 3
Other missed QSOs (no penalty) = 7
Unical calls = 0
Was my cat Oliver in this contest while I went for breaks.....out of 24 contacts I rolled out 15 total mistakes oh then there were the missed QSO's but no penalty there.
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Band Mode UTC Station Sent Rcvd
14 CW 13:39 JT1CO 002 197 Your exchange was copied as 001
............... 002 197 Correct exchange is 167
14 CW 13:42 UW3U 003 306 Not in UW3U log
14 CW 14:11 RT3T 005 NN Not in RT3T log
14 CW 15:11 OF3G 010 151 Correct callsign is OL3Z
14 CW 15:14 W6YI 011 200 Your exchange was copied as 044
14 CW 15:24 OK1IC 012 433 Your exchange was copied as 013
............... 012 433 Correct exchange is 434
14 CW 15:54 UZ0A 015 426 Correct callsign is UZ0U
............... 015 426 Correct exchange is 436
14 CW 15:55 SK3W 016 406 Your exchange was copied as 015
............... 016 406 Correct exchange is 407
14 CW 16:01 IK3W 017 418 Correct callsign is SK3W
14 CW 16:43 LY9K 018 517 Correct callsign is LY9Y
............... 018 517 Your exchange was copied as 008
14 CW 16:49 LN9Z 019 390 Correct exchange is 388
14 CW 16:52 M5B 020 230 Correct exchange is 240
14 CW 17:04 5G5C 021 316 Correct callsign is HG5C
............... 021 316 VE3DDM in 5G5C log
14 CW 17:15 KH6BM 022 011 Correct callsign is KH6MB
14 CW 17:32 GM3WOJ 023 716 Not in GM3WOJ log
14 CW 18:05 HG5C 024 427 Your exchange was copied as 022
The good news is it can only get better and I sure hope it does. I will say I do like getting these score break downs as it lets me know how I did and were things went wrong.....in the case of this contest I did not do well and just about everywhere things went wrong were they could go wrong.
6 comments:
Hi Mike, well at least you had a go, I havent entered a contest yet, though I've made a dozen or so this weekend in the CQ WWW SSB contest, but now I have to figure out if I can export from HRD into cabrillo format.
I expect I'll be posting something similar to yours pretty soon !
73 Paul.
Good afternoon Paul, I was looking at my HRD program and only see ADIF files. For contests I use N1MM and it has cab or ADIF file creation possible. If you do find out let me know how you did it.
Mike, keep in mind that it is very rare for a submitted score to equal the final score. This month's National Contest Journal's lead article is on that very topic, why it occurs (and must occur) and how to minimize it.
You're far from alone!
Hi Mike, oh boy... consider it as an exercise. I am not a contester really, since 35 years only 2 times. It could happen to me too. 73 Paul
Hi John, I get NCJ and look forward to reading the article.
Hi Paul, as I have been told exercise can be painful at times...:)
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