[CQ-Contest] Suggestion to solve category hopping

[Kelly Taylor]

Not to mention the fact that not all operations occur within range of the Internet.

I would hate to lose rover categories or portable operations just because someone had a solution in search of a problem.

73, kelly
ve4xt

On 2015-12-08, at 1:42 PM, "Ken Widelitz" <widelitz at gte.net> wrote:

> Hi Jim,
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> Requiring a submission within 10 minutes, or even a few hours, after the
> contest is not a good idea for a few reasons:
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> 1.     The operator is tired at the end of the contest and there is more
> likelihood that there will be errors, not in the log itself, but in
> submitting class, power, calls, overlays, etc. 
> 
> 2.     Many times you finish your operating time well before the end of the
> contest and walk away, eat, go to sleep, etc. Even if I work right until the
> end of the contest, when it is over, I quickly walk away from the radios.
> I'm beat, done, finished. I don't want to think about the contest for a
> little while at least.
> 
> 3.     The contest robot allows changes to be made to the log. For instance,
> in the recent CQWW CW, the robot indicated I had some RSTs that weren't 3
> digits. Apparently, I tabbed into the RST field by mistake and hit the space
> bar. I don't think it is wrong to correct RST so there are the proper number
> of digits.
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> 73, Ken, K6LA / VY2TT
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