[CQ-Contest] Mailing Certificates

[Randy Thompson K5ZD]

Nothing wrong with certificates.  And nothing like having the first few show
up in the mail!  I think it is wonderful that CQ and ARRL still take the
time and effort to send paper certs.

That said, one of the biggest expenses of running a contest is the printing
and mailing of certificates.  For that reason, the Cabrillo log format
recently had a new field added.

From: http://wwrof.org/cabrillo/cabrillo-specification-v3/

CERTIFICATE: YES | NO
Indicate if you wish to receive, if eligible, a paper certificate sent via
postal mail by the contest sponsor. The contest sponsor may or may not honor
this tag, and if so may or may not use opt-in or opt-out as the default. YES
is the default.


If you don't want to receive certificates, simply add the line
CERTIFICATE: NO
to your log.

Not all contests may support this flag yet (CQ WW does), but it will at
least alert the sponsor as to your preference.

Randy, K5ZD


> -----Original Message-----
> From: CQ-Contest [mailto:cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of
> Pete Smith N4ZR
> Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2015 4:17 PM
> To: CQ Contest
> Subject: [CQ-Contest] Mailing Certificates
> 
> Yesterday, I downloaded and printed my certificate from CQWWCW 2014.
> The resulting piece of paper is every bit as nice as the ones they used
> to mail.
> 
> Why is the ARRL still spending lots of person-hours, printing costs and
> postage to mail out certificates for its contests? A member of the CAC
> actually used cost a couple of years ago as a reason for not splitting
> off Assisted from Multi-Single.  Fortunately, that "logic" finally
> failed, but as a supporter of ARRL for the last 60 years, I have to ask
> when they will quit wasting money like this?
> 
> --
> 
> 73, Pete N4ZR
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