I would like to add a few words to John's comments about marketing. I
agree with his comments 100%. I bow to any and all contest sponsors
and if they feel they need sufficient time to get the results in there
magazines first, I'll go along with it.
Folks, all of us would love to see results posted on various reflectors
about a month after the contest is over. Make that 6 weeks, one month
to get all the logs, and two weeks for Eddie and all other log checkers
to
check the logs and then post them on the reflectors. I'm sure this
could be
done if necessary. However, this would do quiet a bit of damage to the
magazines that sponsor these contests. I assure you the sponsors are
sponsoring these contests with hopes you will subscribe to there
magazines.
Results have always been published in the magazines first. WHY! Well
it's
no secret the internet has hurt most all magazines in one way or
another. The
magazines have people working for them that would really like to get a
pay
check on payday. Without subscribers there will be NO paycheck, no
sponsored
contests, no certificates, no plaques being sponsored. All you will get
for
your weekend of hard work or fun is a nice "At uh BOY" typed out on
the
reflector. I assure you most if not all contest sponsors aren't
sponsoring
these contests "for the only reason" so we can have a good time that
weekend.
Many individual plaque sponsors do sponsor plaques so you will have
recognition of your efforts. I will also add that plaque sponsors don't
grow on trees. At times there down right hard to find. If we didn't
have
these private individuals supporting plaques, there would most likely
be
one plaque given to the world winner the rest would get certificates.
Let me also assure you there is a lot of work that goes into sponsoring
a
contest especially ones as big as CQWW and WPX. Just the paper
certificates
alone are quiet expensive for all contest sponsors. Getting the design
work
for the certificates done, printing all the certificates, Postage to
mail
them is quiet expensive. How about plaques. Most all magazines support
several plaques. Sponsoring a contest isn't as simple as you may think.
You
don't just hit the internet and say we are going to have a contest on
this
weekend and that's it. There is work that goes into it also. The cost
is
somewhat more then you would thing to make the contest happen with any
success. Right now we are only talking about two contest, multiply that
by
how many contests CQ, QST, NRJ, NCJ Magazines, sponsors, each one of
them
having hundreds of operators feeling this contest is there favorite and
should take priority over all the others and all of them have to be
given
an monthly issue to post there results and you can see why it takes
time
to publish the results. Staying with in the budget is PRIORITY ONE to
most
any business.
Yes we could have a bunch of results real fast over the internet if you
don't mind trading certificates and plaques for "At uh BOY" awards..
Who knows the magazines may go for it. It would sure cut there budgets
considerable..
I may not like it very much but I will wait my turn for the results to
be
published in the magazines first. I thank all the magazines for the
contests
they support..
That's my two cents worth.
73, de Ron K5DJ
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-----Original Message-----
From: rtty-admin@contesting.com [mailto:rtty-admin@contesting.com] On
Behalf Of WA9ALS - John
Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2002 18:01
To: 'RTTY Reflector'
Subject: Re: [RTTY] Results of CQ/RJ WW and WPX Contests
> Tnx, that's great. This is not sponsoring, this is a marketing-event.
> All participants are salesman for CQ and New RTTY Journal. I will no
> longer participate on these contests.
>
> 73, DJ3NG
Is not sponsoring a contest "marketing", no matter who the sponsor? If
noone sponsors contests, we are all in big trouble. I was pleased to
learn
recently that Icom has agreed to sponsor NAQP. If they work an "ad"
into
that somehow, that's fine with me. They could even call it the ICOM
NAQP
for all I care - The important part is that they are interested in RTTY
and
have some money! HI
If I can get permission, I will scan the CQWW RTTY DX results and post
on
the web. 73
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