I received an email a couple days ago that the 2009 ARRL DX Phone contest results were posted to the ARRL web site. They provide a few links to ARRL members that show the web based contest summary article, all the scores and your log check report.

The Log check report (LCR) shows the contacts you logged and how many were in error based on comparing your log to the others. It is useful to review to see if there’s any pattern. For RTTY, all the “print” from across the screen is saved in a text file so I can go back and review those. For CW and phone, there’s nothing to directly compare to but if you might see something that you can pay more attention to in the future. I had 209 contacts and all 209 were valid for a “golden log”.

The LCR also shows others that logged me incorrectly, either by callsign or exchange. There were just 3 logged incorrectly with 1 missing the call, 1 missing the exchange, and 1 missing both. My guess on the one that missed both either took the default exchange (state) they had in their history for the call sign they also missed or they looked up the callsign after the contest on QRZ or some other service and used that for the state.

I then reviewed the web based summary article of the contest and near the bottom it lists the top 10 golden logs and I squeaked in at #10 with my 209 contacts.  I’ll have to see if it makes it into the print edition of the contest summary.

73,
K2DSL