Announcement from CQ magazine…
(Hicksville, NY, August 9, 2012) -- A glitch in the software
used to analyze logs submitted for the CQ World Wide DX Contest has resulted in
errors in final scores for some participants in the 2011 CQWW DX SSB and CW
competitions. These errors were discovered after the results of both
competitions were sent to the printer, so some results published in the August
and September issues of CQ will be incorrect. However, only one SSB certificate
(out of approximately 1300) was affected by the error, and with the new,
corrected, results, all affected stations' scores went up, not down. CW results
were still being worked on as this is written, but a similarly small impact is
expected.
According to the CQWW Contest Committee, "approximately
one QSO in a thousand was marked as a bad call in error. This occurred when two
similar calls, for example W1GD and W1GQ, were logged within three minutes of
each other and only one of the stations submitted a log." The problem came
about as part of a recent software upgrade, so no previous CQ contests are
affected. It has now been fixed, so future contests also should not be
affected.
Corrected scores for the SSB weekend will be posted on the
CQ website as soon as possible. Corrected scores for the CW weekend will be
planned to coincide with the release of the September digital edition, on or
around September 1, 2012.
We will make additional announcements when the corrected
results have been posted online.
CQ regrets any inconvenience resulting from these errors.
