Lost Scores

[Nzharps at aol.com]

      I just noticed a posting that talked about the large number of 
ARRL scores that had been "lost" and never listed in various QST
write-ups.  My May QST came yesterday and I was upset to learn
that my "A" power effort in the last SS has disappeared into some
dark space between my QTH and Newington.  After a brief primal
scream, I decided it must have been something that I did wrong,
but I'm beginning to wonder if there is something more going on.
How many of us have experienced foul-ups in score reporting?  It
takes a brave person to wade into the waters of phone SS with
only 100w...and to what reward???  Anyone have suggestions for
a correction to this problem?
       73, 
        Ron Harps, K8NZ

p.s. Hope to CU all at the NCC/FRC Supersuite in Dayton.


>From Jay Townsend" <jayt at comtch.iea.com  Thu Apr 13 21:49:50 1995
From: Jay Townsend" <jayt at comtch.iea.com (Jay Townsend)
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 1995 13:49:50 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Lost Scores
Message-ID: <m0rzVpm-0001p1C at comtch.iea.com>

>       I just noticed a posting that talked about the large number of 
> ARRL scores that had been "lost" and never listed in various QST
> write-ups.

I read the post also and having just completed scoring some logs for a
contest that occurred in February I was kind of amazed. First, I always send
a SASE or a e-mail request for confirmation. I always get the confirmation
and I think Billy Lunt is amazing for keeping such good track of this stuff.

I have entered contests of all types to include lots of small European and
Asian Digital contests and they have never messed up. (Egads I shouldn't be
doing this....there they go.....)

For the contest which I just finished scoring and compiling the logs,
I took logs on internet and QSL'd them the same. Everyone who sent a QSL with
an SASE to confirm receipt got the thing back. I don't know yet how many I
have lost, but hopefully none.  Of course my volume wasn't nearly as high as
that of a big SSB/CW contest.

> How many of us have experienced foul-ups in score reporting?  It
> takes a brave person to wade into the waters of phone SS with
> only 100w...and to what reward???  Anyone have suggestions for
> a correction to this problem?

I suggest an SASE to start with,  that will show the log got thru the mail.
After that it is probably pot-luck tho I seriously doubt that many are
are lost in the "system", but with a couple of thousand logs I am
sure some will be lost, over the course of a few years.

If you think it takes time entering the contest you oughta try scoring some
logs...yuk....not much fun. My hat is off to all of those who do it for the
many contests around the world. Having strict deadlines (30 days on the one
I did) probably helped. Besides having a February Contest and giving out
the plaques in Dayton was one of our goals!

-- 
Jay Townsend, Ws7i  < jayt at comtch.iea.com >


>From Larry Tyree <tree at cmicro.com>  Fri Apr 14 00:28:17 1995
From: Larry Tyree <tree at cmicro.com> (Larry Tyree)
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 1995 16:28:17 -0700
Subject: Last call for SprINT logs
Message-ID: <199504132328.QAA14159 at cascade.cmicro.com>


Still waiting for logs from the following stations:

    KR0Y (> 127 QSOs)
    AB1T (>  63 QSOs)
    NA4K (>  25 QSOs)
    W5XX (>   8 QSOs)
    N2AA (>   4 QSOs)

We would like to get these so the name tracing can be as complete
as possible. 

Please send your log in ASCII format to tree at cmicro.com.

Thanks!


Tree N6TR
tree at cmicro.com

PS: See you in the SquINT this Saturday!