[CQ-Contest] Encouraging Casual Participation in Contests

[Martin LU5DX]

Absolutely great idea.

TBH, LoTW should become the standard solution for issuing credits for 
other awards. National and local Clubs, Groups, could take advantage of it.

We've been talking about this type of solution with LU1FAM and LU5FF.

The ARRL could charge a small fee to those institutions using their LoTW 
service to validate the credits.

Win-Win solution!

73,

Martin LU5DX


El 26/04/2017 a las 11:23 a.m., Pete Smith N4ZR escribió:
> We all agree, I think, that casual participants are a critical part of 
> the total workable population in contests. I spent the first 40 years 
> of my contesting career working contests as a quick and relatively 
> easy source of award credits, and I suspect a large majority of the 
> stations in any contest are doing some variation on this.
>
> There is a reasonably simple and straight-forward way to encourage 
> more of this, potentially yielding more people for us to work.  We 
> need interconnection between CQ and ARRL contest databases, so that 
> any contact that is in both stations' log in a given contest can be 
> claimed for ARRL and CQ award credit without going through the QSL 
> card process.
>
> I'm not underestimating the programming effort involved, I hope, but 
> surely some combination of volunteer and professional staff 
> involvement can get it done. It could start small - perhaps a pilot 
> involving the CQWW open log database and DXCC. Imagine the value added 
> to LOTW if it were the hub for this process, and the potential 
> increase in DXCC fees. Surely, this is a win-win proposition.
>
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