[CQ-Contest] making lemonade (was: ARRL report on line scores decision)

[Michael Keane, K1MK]

On Fri, 26 July 2002, Mark Beckwith wrote:

> > I can't, for the life of me, figure out
> > why that should improve timeliness of result
> > delivery by more than 15 days.
> 
> Um, web-based results?  Trey said:
> 
> > 45 day lead time to publish articles in QST
>  
> Now that QST results are history, there's another 45 days right
> there. 

It's unclear to which date that 45 day lead time is measured relative.
 
The ad deadline for QST is something like 45 days prior to the date of
issue so it makes sense if that was the editorial deadline as well. 

For some time contest results articles have been published to the Web
some 4 to 6 weeks prior to their date of issue i.e. results appearing in
September QST are on the Web site now.  

So it's likely that most of the delay that could have been attributed to
that 45 day lead has already been history for a while.

Other than an understandable reluctance to freeze changes well in
advance of the deadline for going to production, was there ever anything
standing in the way of early release of results? 

73,
Mike K1MK
 

Michael Keane K1MK
k1mk at arrl.net
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