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

[Rick Tavan]

Bravo, Trey! Great proposal. Keep working with CQ and ARRL to accelerate 
both online and paper publication. In business there is a truism that 
the value of an incentive is inversely proportional to the time between 
the period of performance and the reward. Faster publication will incent 
the contesting community to do more, more often, and that will be good 
for the sport.

/Rick N6XI

Trey Garlough wrote:

>Many years ago I had a dream that we would be able to operate contests
>and then see the final results immediately after the events were over.
>This will not be achievable if we rely on QST as a delivery mechanism.
>...
>If we eliminate #1 by publishing on the web and cut #2 from 30 to 15
>days, then I believe we can *tranquilly* release the complete final
>results of Sweepstakes within 30 days of the contest.  ... Why wait until June to read the magazine when you can
>see the results on the web in December?
>
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