[CQ-Contest] making lemonade

[Michael Keane, K1MK]

At 02:52 PM 7/26/02, Mike Gilmer - N2MG wrote:

>Suggesting the 30-to-15 day change only makes sense in
>the aftermath of the recent reduction in publishing
>leadtime enabled by the removal of line scores from
>QST. Make this suggestion 6 months ago, and 15 days
>would be virtually meaningless.  Today, not so.

Nine months ago one could have made the suggestion that the final SS scores 
be prepared and ready to go onto the Web site in mid-January rather than 
waiting until mid-April when the results article was going to be needed by 
the printer.

In that context a 30-to-15 day change would also have made sense. And it 
would have raised the same issues now being brought up in regards to 
accommodating paper logs and disks arriving via the mail and the loss of 
schedule margin for dealing with anomalies.

73,
Mike K1MK

Michael Keane, K1MK
k1mk at alum.mit.edu