[CQ-Contest] Increasing contest participation

[Steve Sacco NN4X]

You also need to consider "date/time".  It's important for many awards.

73,
Steve
NN4X


On 12/5/2013 9:02 AM, Larry wrote:
 > "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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