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Subject: Topband: Computerized Contest Logging
From: "EP Swynar" <gswynar@durham.net>
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 14:55:22 -0500
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Good Day All,

I'm curious as to the "...general feeling" of any & all active & sem-active 
contestors who might be reading this, regarding the matter of computerized 
logging...

Specifically, does EVERY single contestor in existance to-day have a computer 
hooked-up to his rig to perform real-time logging & automatic QSO responses...? 
Is there anyone left out there (like me) who still does it the old-fashioned 
way, i.e.  with paper & pen...?

I must say, I really tried hard to step into the 21st century this past week, 
by playing around with both the N1MM and the EI5DI software --- but I give up! 
All I ever wanted was a simple, after-contest key stroke programme that might 
enable me to submit my logs electronically to the different sponsors (my 
transceivers do NOT interface with computers --- sorry!), but what I got 
instead were pages & pages of documentation that didn't even begin to explain 
to a computer illiterate lout like myself just how one might go about creating 
an e-mail ready attachment for electronic mailing! 

I guess I'll never be comfortable with all of the nuances & apparent "tribal 
knowledge" that accompany computer-speak --- never was, never ever even wanted 
to be, either. 

Anyway, not that any of my small submissions would amount to a hill of beans in 
the final scheme of things, but if contest sponsors are truly annoyed by the 
likes of folks like me who are limited to lead & papyrus at the end of contest 
weekends, then I guess the time has finally come for me to maybe just enjoy the 
fun of participating, but to not offer my support with a snail-mailed 
submission...

Am I the last of the dinosaurs in this way, or are there others out there like 
me...?

~73~ Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ
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