[CQ-Contest] Real Time Scoring and Quick Submissions

[Kelly Taylor]

Except I didn’t argue “some can’t therefore we shouldn’t”.

I argued “most won’t, but we should find a way for those who want to.”

73, kelly, ve4xt 

> On Nov 11, 2016, at 10:26 AM, Kevan Nason <knason00 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Thanks for feedback Kelly and I don't assume anyone is inferior to me.
> 
> Agree with your point about infrastructure and Heard Island and understood there are situations the ability to get a real time score is not possible. There are always exceptions. But most can. If you start from that point and figure out a workable solution as to how to make it work for most then you can figure out how to handle those exceptions. 
> 
> Starting at "some can't therefore we shouldn't" has stopped a lot of projects over the years.
> 
> Kevan
> N4XL
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> On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 11:18 AM, Kelly Taylor <ve4xt at mymts.net <mailto:ve4xt at mymts.net>> wrote:
> > If you go to a place that doesn’t have the
> > net you aren’t likely to be using a competitive station and won’t have a
> > shot at beating your chest in triumph anyway.
> 
> I call BS on this one. Sorry.
> 
> Heard Island is going to rock a contest, simply by virtue of its rarity.
> 
> A cottage station in VE4 can rock SS, simply by virtue of Manitoba’s relative rarity.
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> Just because you don’t have Internet doesn’t mean you don’t have access to concrete or can only put up wires.
> 
> At least one winner of ARRL DX last year was a Field-Day style station, set up on a cliff facing the U.S.
> 
> Some of these stories are some of the greatest stories we have. That so-and-so won with more than a thousand feet of tower, 200 total elements and more Alpha than Alpha Centauri isn’t a great story. A victory is almost expected at that point.
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> You can’t assume everyone operates with the same infrastructure you do, and you can’t assume those who don’t are automatically inferior.
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> Real-time scoring would be a great contest-within-a-contest. It would help attract new contesters and push the boundaries of contest reporting. But making it mandatory would drive away a large part of your existing customers. More so, I’d argue, than it would attract.
> 
> 73, kelly, ve4xt,
>