One of my goals as director of the WPX contest is to make the results reporting as accurate as possible (i.e., perfection). When dealing with over 3400 logs and 25 categories per country\/call area there are a lot of opportunities for errors to sneak in.\u00a0 Maybe I will achieve the goal next year.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n
I have to recognize and congratulate the sportsmanship displayed by Mike, K9NW. He noticed an error in how his single band 160 meter score was calculated and brought it to my attention.\u00a0 Turns out there\u00a0were errors in calculating the final scores of some single band logs.\u00a0 The QSOs and points were calculated correctly, but they received multiplier credit for QSOs made on other bands.\u00a0 The result of the corrections is that Mike is no longer the winner of single band 160 meters for the USA.\u00a0 That honor now goes to W2MF.<\/p>\n
In another example of sportsmanship, I received an email from Koji, NH0DX.\u00a0 Koji had misunderstood the rules for the Rookie category and realized that he was not eligible for the category.\u00a0 His US license was for less than 3 years, but he had been licensed in Japan as JL3RDC for 23 years. As part of the log checking process I had researched the calls of the Rookie category winners, but had missed that Koji had been licensed in Japan.\u00a0 This makes Patrick, OT2A, the World high score for the Rookie category.<\/p>\n
I have to blame the software for something although it is an error I should have caught.\u00a0 The results for Italy and Sicily (IT9)\u00a0were combined into one country.\u00a0 The corrections page lists the new results for Sicily.\u00a0 We apologize for the error.<\/p>\n
When I was compiling the results for the magazine, I missed marking in bold some of the certificate winners in the Rookie category.\u00a0 Also, F4FLQ and EA3ATM had correctly entered the Rookie category in their log, but they were not listed as such in the results.\u00a0 Both are country winners for their category.<\/p>\n
A list of all corrections to the magazine results\u00a0can be found at http:\/\/www.cqwpx.com\/results_2008_ssb_corrections.htm<\/a>.\u00a0 These corrections have already been applied to the on-line score database.<\/p>\n W5GN will be printing and mailing all certificates for the WPX SSB contest\u00a0this month.\u00a0 Our\u00a0plan is to have them in your hands\u00a0prior to the WPX SSB contest at the end of March.\u00a0 All corrections will be reflected in the certificates.\u00a0 K1DG has the order for the plaques off to the engraver and those will also be in the mail prior to the contest.\u00a0 Say thanks to\u00a0both of these guys for the work that they do.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One of my goals as director of the WPX contest is to make the results reporting as accurate as possible (i.e., perfection). When dealing with over 3400 logs and 25 categories per country\/call area there are a lot of opportunities for errors to sneak in.\u00a0 Maybe I will achieve the goal next year.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude41 I … Continue reading Corrections to 2008 WPX SSB Results<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-results","no-featured-image"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7uaXG-p","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cqwpx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cqwpx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cqwpx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cqwpx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cqwpx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cqwpx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":415,"href":"https:\/\/cqwpx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions\/415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cqwpx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cqwpx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cqwpx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}