[CQ-Contest] Logs

[ve4xt at mts.net]

I think the proper response to any contest organizer that castigates someone for not submitting a log 
starts and ends with the letter 'f'.

No matter what level you play at, no matter how serious you take it, no matter how seriously a contest 
organizer takes it, it's still just a hobby.

The vast majority of people in any contest log, from the hard-core HC8Ns to the harder-core OHxX, 
are just folk indulging in a bit of off-time fun. If any of them chooses to get on the air, make some 
contacts and not worry about submitting a log, to them we should only give thanks. THEY are the ones 
who populate logs. The number of hard-core stations pales in comparison to the hundred thousand or 
so callsigns that appear in all the WW logs put together.

And if one of those stations, such as AD1C, chooses to make more than a 'dabbling' amount of contacts 
and then chooses not to submit a log, it is 100 per cent his right to make that choice. 

None of this should be taken as criticism of any rule that an organizer wishes to impose upon those 
who choose to enter a contest and therefore choose to submit to the published rules. But SURELY the 
right to choose to submit or not submit a contest log MUST rank right up there with, say, oh, just 
thinking out loud here... the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution!

I'm just sayin'...

And absolutely because of the above, I do believe that those who oppose a contest organizer's rule 
about public logs certainly have the right to choose to submit or not submit a log. (And, First 
Amendment and all, have the right to protest such rules with the contest organizer.)

73, kelly
ve4xt

On 6/14/10 3:28 PM, "Jim Reisert AD1C" <jjreisert at alum.mit.edu> wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 8:04 PM, Hank Garretson <w6sx at arrl.net> wrote:
> 
>> Actually not.  I gently suggest that if you don't want your log made public,
>> then don't submit it.
> 
> Hi Hank,
> 
> I have been castigated in the past by one contest sponsor (in private,
> fortunately), for stating that because I did something that was not
> allowed by the rules, I chose not to submit my log.  The claim is that
> they NEED it for log checking (no one NEEDS my log, though they might
> WANT it).  Why can't I choose to be like every other casual
> participant who makes a few contacts and doesn't send in log?  So even
> though my log might end up as a check log, it could still be made
> public (not that I care).
> 
> Perhaps we need a new Cabrillo tag that says:
> 
> LOG_TYPE:  <PRIVATE|PUBLIC>
> 
> 73 - Jim AD1C