[CQ-Contest] Thoughts from a sponsor on one hour log deadlines

[K0HB]

I'll be pleased to send in my results within an hour if the contest sponsor
will be pleased to publish the contest results at the end of the second
hour.

Beep beep,
de Hans, K0HB/4ID
Just a boy and his radio
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> [Original Message]
> From: Michael Coslo <mjc5 at psu.edu>
> To: cq-contest reflector <cq-contest at contesting.com>
> Date: 5/19/2008 4:41:02 PM
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Thoughts from a sponsor on one hour log
deadlines
>
>
> On May 14, 2008, at 9:44 PM, Marty Durham wrote:
> > All true...but how many ham's do NOT have more than one e-mail  
> > account? I'm
> > willing to bet most everyone has hotmail, yahoo, or gmail as well  
> > as a more
> > 'standard' ISP.
> >
> > And in all the years that I've been using e-mail (pushing 20 now) I  
> > can't
> > recall but one or two instances in the 'early' days of a prolonged
> > outage...oh, and when the cable provider was offline for 3 weeks after
> > Hurricane Ivan rolled through Pensacola...but I had DSL too...and  
> > it was
> > back online as soon as the power was up.
>
> 	That's pretty good. Wish I could say the same. Your experience is  
> one data point, But there are hundreds and even thousands of people  
> trying to get mail to me, an error rate of just one percent could  
> leave quite a few people out of luck.
>
> I hope you aren't suggesting that Ops email us their logs from every  
> email  account that they own? Ebombing the sponsor is not a solution  
> to anything. Having multiple submissions from Ops will just make  
> things slower during that one hour window.
>
> In addition, I sometimes get an Op who has had a computer problem who  
> ends up making an excel file. Sometimes something just isn't correct  
> and needs fixed. I'd just as soon have a repaired log (like if the  
> time was set to local instead of UT) than DQ the fellow.
>
> If we granted exceptions there would be a whole lot of them:
>
> Rovers
> Mobiles
> Most County line stations
> Portables
>
> It just doesn't accomplish anything useful to require a one hour  
> submission deadline. It would certainly serve to DQ many more honest  
> Ops than any cheaters, who can be found using other methods.
>
> What is needed is a view of a bigger picture, not one of thinking  
> that every Op is using an identical operation, has access to the web  
> continuously, and has a logging program that spits out a perfect log.  
> Some Ops just don't have access to the web from where they are  
> operating.
>
> 	- 73 de N3LI -
>
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