[CQ-Contest] Encouraging Casual Participation in Contests

[W0MU Mike Fatchett]

There is an addon that imports your N1MM contacts into DX Keeper after 
every qso.


On 4/26/2017 11:15 AM, Joe wrote:
> Yup after a contest, in a matter of minutes, literally under 5, My log 
> is in my DX Labs DX Keeper, then with just a few clicks it is uploaded 
> to LOTW, Eqsl, and club log a total time of less than 5 minutes.
>
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> On 4/26/2017 10:02 AM, Ron Notarius W3WN wrote:
>>   Pete,
>>
>>
>> I agree with you in principle that finding a way to interconnect the 
>> logs submitted to the major contests with at least one of the major 
>> online databases (not just Logbook of the World, but ClubLog and 
>> eQSL, possibly one day the logs on QRZ.COM as well) appears to be a 
>> good idea.
>>
>>
>> My only question is, is this really necessary?
>>
>>
>> Uploading the contest log to the committee nowadays is as simple as 
>> emailing a log or uploading it via a web page (again, for the major 
>> contests and many of the smaller ones as well -- I know not all have 
>> this capability!).  Is it really that much more difficult for someone 
>> to send a second email. or second upload, of their log to the major 
>> databases?
>>
>>
>> I know some will answer that in the case of LotW, the answer is "yes" 
>> because of the TQSL encryption, and in most other cases, "yes" 
>> because someone has to create an account.  This gets into the can of 
>> worms regarding whether or not someone wishes their log to be 
>> available via the online systems, for whatever reasons, valid or not; 
>> I'm not sure that this is a can of worms we want to open.
>>
>>
>> That issue aside, I would submit that encouraging all contest ops, 
>> even the most casual of them, to consider creating said account and 
>> doing a quick additional upload would be more productive in the short 
>> run and possibly the long run than getting into the issues (both 
>> technical and political) of linking the contest databases directly to 
>> the online logs.
>>
>>
>> (And for those who don't know, ClubLog now has the ability to 
>> interface with LotW)
>>
>>
>> 73, ron w3wn
>>
>> On 04/26/17, Pete Smith N4ZR wrote:
>>
>> 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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