At 06:10 PM 7/25/2002 -0700, Trey Garlough wrote:
Over the past couple of years I have noticed a trend in how contest
logs are submitted. There is one spike that occurs right after the
contest and another spike the occurs right before the log submission
deadline, and during the intervening weeks the robot becomes very
quiet.
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I might add that the same exact scenario plays out on the
unofficial 3830 summaries. In the past, I would only post
summaries for a couple weeks after a contest. However, I noticed
we could lose a significant number of participants that always
waited until just before the deadline. For that reason, the
final summary is now always after the log deadline even if
intervening weeks are empty of posts.
I'm sure there are a myriad of reasons for those late logs
but I personally feel 2 weeks and a day are more than sufficient to
get the results in. I also agree it's part of the contest to meet
whatever deadline is set. Seeing line scores six months after
the event (BTW, that's QST - CQ magazine is 12 months!) is like
reading box scores for the local ball team after the season is over.
My input to this "voice" vote - aye! :>)
73
dink, n7wa
>From Sylvan Katz <jskatz@sk.sympatico.ca> Fri Jul 26 16:06:00 2002
From: Sylvan Katz <jskatz@sk.sympatico.ca> (Sylvan Katz)
Subject: [CQ-Contest] making lemonade (was: ARRL report on line scores
decision)
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> I wouldn't mind 15 days either, but I can't, for the life of me, figure
out
> why that should improve timeliness of result delivery by more than 15
> days. Put another way, all of what Trey proposes could be implemented
just
> as well if the deadline remained 30 days.
Excellent point! 15 days is a small saving -- 6-12 months is a big saving.
It would be less disruptive to leave the submission window at 30 days and
have the results posted to the web within 60 days.
BUT what happens if you are not an ARRL member - do you have to wait an
additional 30 days until, for example, the SS results are release from the
members only section? I have never understood the logic of encouraging
everyone to enter contests and then penalizing non-ARRL members with a 30
day waiting period. I wonder if this annoying and discriminating policy will
change with movement of line scores to the web?
.. sylvan
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Sylvan Katz, VE5ZX
Saskatoon, SK
"A Novel Perspective of Amateur Radio Contesting" at
http://www.dynamicforesight.com/~ve5zx
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