[CQ-Contest] CQ Contest Certificates.

[Gerry Treas K8GT]

I agree.  I still like getting my 'Once in a Blue Moon' certificate, but 
it doesn't have to be mailed. An Email attachment would suffice.

73, Gerry, K8GT



On 2012-11-16 09:47, Pete Smith N4ZR wrote:
> I'm not sure I agree with Randy on this.  If I could download a 
> certificate with my name, callsign and details of my place in the 
> contest already inserted, I think that would give me as big a rush as 
> receiving a paper certificate in the mail.
>
> 73, Pete N4ZR
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> On 11/16/2012 3:35 AM, Maarten van Rossum wrote:
>> I certainly can remember my first certificate! In my case it wasn't that
>> long ago, it must have been the year 2008. I emidiately bought a 
>> frame to
>> put it in so that I could put it on the wall in the shack. 
>> Unfortunaltely
>> it didn't fit the frame (in the US everything is bigger, even the
>> certificates ;-)).
>>
>> I think easiest way to let the contest sponsor know that there's no 
>> need to
>> send a certificate is to not mention your address in the Cabrillo file.
>> If someone left out his of her address by accident, then there should
>> always be the abbility to download the certificate from the sponsors
>> website.
>>
>> By the way, I for one would like to be able to download my 
>> certificates in
>> the European A4 paper size. Fits our frame without having to modify it.
>>
>> Keep up the good work Randy!
>>
>> 73, Maarten PD2R
>> PI4DX Contest group
>>
>>
>> Op vrijdag 16 november 2012 schreef Randy Thompson K5ZD 
>> (k5zd at charter.net)
>> het volgende:
>>
>>> Brian,
>>>
>>> You are right that it is expensive to print and mail certificates to
>>> thousands of people per contest.  However, it is worth it when we get
>>> excited emails from new contesters happy to have won their first 
>>> award.  I
>>> think we can all remember getting our first few certificates and 
>>> hanging
>>> them proudly on the wall.  Hard for a pdf file to match that!
>>>
>>> We have discussed providing a way for contest participants to opt 
>>> out of
>>> receiving a certificate.  Perhaps they have a box of them or just don't
>>> want
>>> to cause us the expense.
>>>
>>> The logical place to do this is by a new field in the Cabrillo 
>>> file.  So
>>> far, the people who maintain the Cabrillo file "standard" have not been
>>> interested in adding a new tag.  Perhaps some more support would 
>>> encourage
>>> them to change their mind.
>>>
>>> Should there be one new tag that says "don't send certificates or 
>>> plaques
>>> or
>>> anything"?  Or should be there be two?  One for no certificates and 
>>> another
>>> for no plaques/awards?  Or could it be as simple as a convention 
>>> that says
>>> if there is no address provided then don't send anything?
>>>
>>>
>>> 73
>>>
>>> Randy, K5ZD
>>>
>>> PS - Hoping for good conditions and lots of certificate/plaque 
>>> winners in
>>> the CQWW in just 8 days!
>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: CQ-Contest 
>>>> [mailto:cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com<javascript:;>]
>>> On Behalf Of
>>>> brian coyne
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2012 9:19 PM
>>>> To: CQ CONTEST
>>>> Subject: [CQ-Contest] CQ Contest Certificates.
>>>>
>>>> On the morning of the ssb contest the mailman delivered two 
>>>> certificates
>>>> from CQ, always nice to get them. One was for CQWW CW 2011 the 
>>>> other for
>>>> CQWW SSB 2011.
>>>>
>>>> Looking at that mail got me to thinking about the expense incurred 
>>>> by CQ
>>>> Mag in sending us these for free. Two A4 envelopes two lots of postal
>>>> charges, the logistics of stuffing the envelopes, taking them to the
>>>> mailing centre not to mention the task of hand signing them when there
>>>> must be many hundreds if not into the thousand of these 
>>>> certificates for
>>>> both contests. All businesses benefit from cost reducing measures 
>>>> and CQ
>>>> organisation is no exception to that.
>>>>
>>>> I would venture that the majority of entrants have facilities to 
>>>> print e-
>>>> certificates, perhaps something could be included in the cabrillo 
>>>> header
>>>> or the soabox to the effect that an e-certificate will be acceptable.
>>>>
>>>> Just my thoughts anyway.
>>>>
>>>> 73  Brian 5B4AIZ / C4Z.
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