I applaud the adding of the "Receive Certificate" field to the Cabrillo
file.
I think this is a much better idea than moving to on-line printable
certificates altogether. Receiving a certificate in the mail is still a very
motivating factor for many contesters - especially newer contesters. It's a
much different experience than going to a Web Site and downloading one. On
the other hand, if you operate many contests a year and have a whole folder
full of certificates, getting another one in the mail may not be very
important to you.
It is true that the cost of mailing certificates has been a factor in
adding new categories to ARRL contests in the past. But it is certainly not
the only factor. Diluting of competition has probably been a bigger factor
when considering the addition of new categorizes than the cost of mailing
certificates.
The opportunity to opt our of receiving a mailed certificates seems to be a
very pragmatic solution. I am glad to see the Cabrillo will support it
now.
73,
Al, K0AD
In a message dated 2/1/2015 9:27:37 P.M. Central Standard Time,
n4zr@contesting.com writes:
Yesterday, I downloaded and printed my certificate from CQWWCW 2014.
The resulting piece of paper is every bit as nice as the ones they used
to mail.
Why is the ARRL still spending lots of person-hours, printing costs and
postage to mail out certificates for its contests? A member of the CAC
actually used cost a couple of years ago as a reason for not splitting
off Assisted from Multi-Single. Fortunately, that "logic" finally
failed, but as a supporter of ARRL for the last 60 years, I have to ask
when they will quit wasting money like this?
--
73, Pete N4ZR
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