But you submit a log. The question has to be asked of people who don't. Don't unnecessarily restrict your point of view to define "rewards" as "prizes". Maybe a reward for submitting a Cabrillo log
Fact: The more ice cream is consumed in London, England...the greater the number of deaths due to frostbite in Cape Town South Africa. Fallacy: By banning the sale of ice cream in London, South Afric
Tom, Nice work. What I see is (with one exception) a series of higher-highs and higher-lows. The overall trend is up, given this data set...though there is a hint of a turn-aound at the end. HOWEVER.
In reply to my post of: South Africa. http://www.stadtklima.de/webklima/CITIES/africa/za/Kapstadt/Kapstadt.htm It looks like it does (freeze) to me. Is it an often occurance? Of course not. But "It n
The 5th row from the top (labeled, "Absolute minimum air temperature (?C)") tells me that it is wrong to say "It never freezes in Cape Town." :) W2EV, QRT on this topic
I agree with Tree. If you missed his post, look over the snips below... -- <snip> <snip> -- What is most profound about what he said and suggested is that there is no premise, other than the desire t
How? Show new people how much fun it is. If you do a good job, they'll stick around. Duh! :) How much fun it it to be a ROVER? I can show you. Send me a PRIVATE email that says "Gimme 'da goods" and
One can argue 'till the cows come home about what makes it fun for you, and custom design rules that make it more fun -- for you. The best contest rules are those that allow lots of ways of having fu
For her...it is exciting (It's fun). Her reward for operating wasn't spelled out in Skip's note (for many it's the adreneline rush, for others it's helping out the club score, for others it's ...). B
Yes, Tom. You've got it. This can't be difficult to do (identifying who participated but didn't submit). The tough part is reaching them to ask them why. If done with tact, there's no reason in the w
Our dilema is not unlike that of the skiing industry several years ago; declining numbers of skiiers. The issues are the same (they're both hobbies, after all). The answer for them was that their own
W-O-W! These points address the issue of "encouraging the submission of logs". We submit logs because: o It's easy o There is a reward for doing so With a tip of my hat to Scott be prepared for creat
There was controversy when snowboarders were finally allowed on the slopes, too...but such is the stuff that change is made of. :) Well done, HQ (and thanks for sharing that, Tom)! Ev, W2EV
Tom Frenaye wrote: -- Sounds like it might be useful information to have. Rather than making it into a research project that no one has the time to do, a simpler (do-it-now) solution might for each p
== People participate because: o It's fun o There's a reward for doing so People submit logs because: o It's easy o There's a reward for doing so == Bryan (K0EMT) wrote the following insights that fi
I just analyzed a January 2002 VHF SS Cabrillo log (thanks to the person who sent me theirs!). I've compared it to the logs received by the ARRL (as shown on the website). In this particular station'
This one is from a Single Op/Low Power station in the Upper Midwest (EN53). 81 Unique Callsigns in their 2002 log. 42 did not submit a log to the ARRL. (52% of the unique calls in this log) 15 submit
This one is from a California Rover...and continues with the common theme. 43 Unique callsigns 27 of those unique callsigns never submitted a log to the ARRL themselves (63%) 11 Submitted a log witho
People submit logs because: o It's easy to do o There's a reward for doing so It sounds like the first is more important than the second to this person. After all, they tried to submit, but were thwa
I suggest that people submit logs because: o It is easy to do o There is a reward for doing so If someone doesn't submit a log, it's because one (or both) of those is not true in their case. I've bee