[CQ-Contest] Random acts of kindness, Unassisted Categories, Rules, etc.

[Paul J. Piercey]

With today's technology, logs could/can be submitted in real-time or, with a
keystroke or 2, immediately after the contest. Anyone still using paper logs
(Yikes!!) could conceiveably have the current time period in which to submit
but all electronic logs would have, say, 24 hours to get submitted. The
robot would respond immediately, as it does now, and you would know your log
has been received.


73 -- Paul VO1HE  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com 
> [mailto:cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of W0MU 
> Mike Fatchett
> Sent: December 7, 2006 21:09
> To: n2ic at arrl.net; 'CQ-Contest Reflector'
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Random acts of kindness, Unassisted 
> Categories,Rules, etc.
> 
> A log received after the dealine is a check log by their own rules!
> Accepting the log is completely unacceptable.  Getting the 
> log in on time is as much as part of the rules as getting the 
> exchange correctly.  Consistant enforcement of all rules 
> needs to happen.  
> 
> Why should that person be given any extra time.  It makes me 
> wonder what he is doing with his log that he can't get it in on time.
> 
> I think the log deadlines should be much shorter than they 
> are.  90 percent of the logs (guess) are electronic.
> 
> A week is plenty of time to get your log submitted 
> electronically or in the mail and postmarked prior to the 
> entry deadline.
> 
> Mike W0MU 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com
> [mailto:cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Steve London
> Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 12:23 PM
> To: cq-contest at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Random acts of kindness, Unassisted 
> Categories, Rules, etc.
> 
> Okay, we have beaten this horse to death, now, for another 
> ethical/rules question.
> 
> What would you say about a perennial top-10 finisher in 
> Sweepstakes who year-after-year submits his log after the 
> published deadline ?  He/she is always a few days late, yet 
> his submission is always accepted.
> 
> Is the log submission deadline just another 55 MPH speed 
> limit ?  When should a submitted log be rejected, assuming 
> there are no extenuating circumstances ?
> 
> 73,
> Steve, N2IC
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