[CQ-Contest] Increasing contest participation

[Larry]

"Same call sign/same band/same mode = dupe."

Not necessarily. You may need to consider QTH. If you move more than 25 
miles you get to start WAS over as an example. But that is a different topic 
from the subject at hand.

73, Larry  W6NWS

-----Original Message----- 
From: James Cain
Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2013 6:04 AM
To: Steve Lott
Cc: cq-contest at contesting.com
Subject: [CQ-Contest] Increasing contest participation

Steve,

The subject line of my post was just a "teaser." (I used to be a newspaper 
editor and one of my jobs was writing headlines.)

The solution to overloading LotW is for LotW not to store dupes. Same call 
sign/same band/same mode = dupe. This purging of dupes would be done at LotW 
and participants could opt out of it if they want their LotW log to continue 
to show dozens of "QSLs" from the same station on the same band and mode 
(although I can't imagine why they would).

My own 25,000 QSLs on LotW are, to make a wild guess, maybe as much as 75 
per cent dupes, since I work the same contests, and the same stations, year 
after year. Go ahead LotW, purge away!

I don't know where you got that line about "The responsibility of a QSL ..." 
It is not apropos to my proposal. LotW is a "Third Party." Think QSL 
managers, for another example of a "Third Party." Or how about using your 
credit card to order a QSL, and getting a QSL with a printed sticker and 
maybe no signature? How many third party hands (and machines) did that 
transaction pass through?

Have you noticed how many DXpeditions offer "order-a-QSL" with no desire for 
a QSL from you? And how many DXpeditions now will send the QSO info for you 
to LotW after you send them a couple of dollars? You can even order an LotW 
credit and opt out of receiving a paper QSL (my favorite). These methods 
seem to have perfectly adequate safeguards for integrity (checking the log, 
etc). These are the waves of the future.

I heard from a couple of people who treasure their collection of 100,000 
paper QSLs filed away in homemade wood cabinets. Nothing will take that away 
from them. But not all of us live in the town we were born in.

My proposal in no way would affect hams who want to pay for printed QSLs and 
send them through the mail. But ask a young person what they think about 
exchanging "post cards" through "the mail" to prove that they talked to 
somebody on their radio, and watch their eyes glaze over.

Jim Cain, K1TN



  Jim on the surface (first glance) this may seem like an easy answer


  However if the sponsors uploaded in bulk to the LOTW server there would be 
many crashes of the LOTW site

  the band width would be extraordinary


  The responsibility of a QSL is still the station operator, not a third 
party.


  I think we see plenty of increased activity in several of the bigger 
contest

  like CQWW and ARRL SS as well as Sweepstakes


  cheers!


  steve



  KG5VK
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