[CQ-Contest] Who copies things any more?

[Christian Schneider]

Hi,
because WAG was mentioned one small comment: The sheer difference in 
numbers between WWDX and WAG (should be 5 Million QSO-lines in submitted 
WWDX-logs vs. 0,6 Mio in WAG) makes it difficult to compare to say the 
least. The amount of time to deal with such things with diagnosing, 
communicating with participants and repairing is simply huge and any 
checking team has to decide which things are possible in the given time 
with the given manpower. I think everyone down in the logchecking caves 
sees what COULD be done in an ideal world but those things take a 
horrible amount of human time because human creativity in making errors 
and funny things while operating and logging is much bigger than the 
capability of software to deal with without human guide ;-)
73 Chris DL8MBS
(WAG Contestmanager)

P.S.: Nevertheless not buying into the argument that a) it would equal 
out by statistics (ask our friends in LU whether it helped that 
statistically the net outcome from the last two soccer games against DL 
is one win for each team...)
and argument b) humans would argue less against software decisions than 
against human decisions - not sure whether that were in taxation, court 
and job decisions...

> (...)
> Nevertheless I would expect that the log checking software would 
> indeed be smart enough to find out there's something wrong if 120 guys 
> get the same error (i.e. "wrong" zone logged) for the same contact and 
> pop it up for some manual checking/actions. At least this is how it's 
> handled during log-checking in several other contests (i.e. WAG) not 
> to punish people for reasons beyond their sphere of influence.