[Top] [All Lists]  Re: [CQ-Contest] Newbie CW logging questions
To: david@levinecentral.com, cq-contest@contesting.com From:
"Victor A. Kean, Jr." <vkean@k1lt.com> Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2009
14:28:49 -0500 This question crops up a lot, and there is a way
of looking at it that answers many ancillary questions as well.
The contest requires that you acquire some information, which we
can refer to as "content", to borrow a term from the data
processing field.  The fact that some of that content, the
power, is expressed as "100" or "ATT" or even "0R1K" is
"encoding", which is a different concept than "content", again
from the data processing perspective.  In other words, the
contest sponsor wants to see the power in some form that they
understand, and the ordinary number is (probably) the preferred
form.  So when you hear "ATT" or "5NN", log "100" or "599",
respectively.  Everyone will allow "K" or "KW" as a convenient
abbreviation for "1000", so you don't accidentally lose a zero
while  Short form: CW operating us