[CQ-Contest] ARRL DX Phone Results

[Ron Notarius W3WN]

I can understand that not everything gets posted to the web at the same
instant (comes from the day job, natch).  That I can live with.

It's these constant cuts in the printed published results (be they QST or
NCJ or wherever) that I find aggravating.  Ken, you (and Ward and the
others) work hard to put together a good writeup in the space they give you;
to then find your words chopped to bits because of further space
restrictions is unfair to you as an author, and unfair to us League members
as readers.

There has to be another way!

73, ron w3wn

-----Original Message-----
From: cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com
[mailto:cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com]On Behalf Of Kenneth E. Harker
Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 5:27 PM
To: John Laney
Cc: cq-contest reflector
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] ARRL DX Phone Results


     I can't speak for Ward directly, but as the author of the last two
10 Meter Contest results articles, I can tell you that:

(a) What I submitted was heavily edited for space constraints (and
    unfortunately for 2007 that editing introduced a typo in one contester's
    name that was not a typo in my original manuscript).  My original
article
    submission is what has been published as the Web Report, and I think
    that's generally true for the other contests.

(b) The QST Results, Printable Line Scores, Web Report, LCRs, and contest
    records can become available on the web site at different times.  For
    the 2007 10 Meter Contest, those items separately appeared online over
    about a two week period of time before they were all available.

(c) In the Web Report version of the article, there will be links to the
    Top Ten boxes, Region boxes, Club boxes, etc. on the right-hand side of
    the screen.  We'll have to wait for the Web Report for the 2008 ARRL
    DX Phone contest to be available.


On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 04:17:39PM -0400, John Laney wrote:
> A review of the results on the Members Only part of the ARRL website
> suggests to me that the multi op DX and top 10 DX tables may have been
> removed from the magazine portion of the article where one would expect
> to see them and put only on-line, apparently in an effort to save more
> magazine pages for non-contest purposes.   It would be interesting to
> know if Ward included these tables and any discussion of DX multi-op
> scores in submitting his proposed article to QST.  Speaking as one who
> has travelled to PJ4 for ARRL DX CW in two of the past three years, my
> incentive to do so is greatly diminished if the only mention I will get
> in QST if I win for the world or for South America is the listing that I
> won a plaque.  The Top Ten DX tables and a discussion of multi-op DX
> contester achievements should always be a part of the QST manazine write
> up.
>
> Having said that, I have looked in vain at www.arrl.org/contests for the
> Top Ten tables that are supposedly available in the "expanded Web
> version of this article."  Can anybody tell me where these promised
> tables can be viewed?  OK, now I see that for contests that happened
> earlier, there is another line called "web report."  That "web report"
> is apparently not yet availale for 2008 ARRL DX Phone.
>
> 73, John, K4BAI.
>
>
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