[CQ-Contest] New log deadline for ARRL contests?

[Michael Gilmer]

I'm sure all the anti-log-sanitizing nazis will be happy, but the
programmers might not be. Now they have but a few days to fix any
Cabrillo-generation bugs that might not be discovered until late. (I know, I
know, they are ALL supermen and there are never any bugs.)

Also, this would put the deadline for several large contests right on top of
other large contests (ARRL DX phone occurs 2 wks after ARRL DX CW; SS phone
is two wks after SS CW).  Currently, I don't have to worry about submitting
any of the big-four Fall contest logs until after CQWW CW is over.

I'm not against change, but it should have a purpose...   Is this to speed
up the publication of the results on the web or in QST?  (Personally, I can
wait the extra 15 days...) Or is it to cut down on that nasty evil of log
sanitizing?  (Which IMO is not as pervasive as some seem to believe.)  Or
will it simply serve to make slightly more acute one of contesting's
existing burdens?  If Dan is going to entertain "special situations" (and I
don't envy him this), why not make the deadline one week (or less)?  Then
when your only Internet-enabled PC crashes, or your ISP goes down, you, too,
can cry "foul!"

Mike N2MG
P.S. I do not perform any post-contest log sanitizing nor do I often take
more than a few days to submit my log.

> One change that was new to me is a shorter deadline for submitting logs
for
> ARRL contests --- instead of 30 days after the contest, it would be 15
days
> after the contest.  (As I recall, Dan said that this would apply to the
> 2002 November Sweepstakes and later contests.  From later information,
> however, it is not clear to me whether the change has been adopted or is
> merely under consideration.)  Members of the audience had a number of
> comments, bringing out pros and cons.  The discussion revealed the need
for
> flexibility (e.g., someone may enter the ARRL DX Contest as a DXpedition
> during the course of a longer trip and not be able to send in the log
> within the 15 days), and Dan indicated that he could handle such special
> situations.
>
> I'm curious to know what the broader contesting community sees as the
> practical implications of such a change.