[CQ-Contest] Forum topic

[Randy Thompson]

The K1DG CTU presentation is excellent.  Everyone should review it before the Fall contests!  There is always going to be "stuff that happens" that causes some busts and NILs in your log.  But, good to have the reminder so that you can minimize the number of errors that you can control!

Randy K5ZD

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From: CQ-Contest <cq-contest-bounces+k5zd=outlook.com at contesting.com> On Behalf Of Tim Shoppa
Sent: Monday, August 16, 2021 12:18 PM
To: CQ-Contest Reflector <cq-contest at contesting.com>; Richard DiDonna <richnn3w at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Forum topic

Rich I think you'll enjoy the heck out of this, a personal history of logchecking by N6TR, and it includes some details about WRTC 2006
logchecking: https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.kkn.net%2Fn6tr%2FContestBanquet.ppt&data=04%7C01%7C%7C468915d5f7184138d89c08d960f035c3%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637647407076802100%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=0jbdpK0iXFTOnWgwxrHrIUm00VTsqMmyB%2BJKFYdhww4%3D&reserved=0

Also there is this, Doug K1DG's powerpoint that was at CU in 2018
https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.contestuniversity.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2018%2F05%2F8.-K1DG-Reading-and-learning-from-your-Log-checking-report-REV20180329.pdf&data=04%7C01%7C%7C468915d5f7184138d89c08d960f035c3%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637647407076802100%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=DaQ5%2FETXRuUw1Yq1BBsa12uK%2Bes%2BAs0JtZ30QMYKrR0%3D&reserved=0

And Doug's NCJ article is available at the NCJ website here:
https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fncjweb.com%2Ffeatures%2Fjulaug19feat.pdf&data=04%7C01%7C%7C468915d5f7184138d89c08d960f035c3%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637647407076802100%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=MhyxrIJ8gCJ6C0n9AkO5ZNFUIYven%2FgwHzQDeLz6q%2BU%3D&reserved=0

Back in the 1990's, processing thousands of logs each with up to several thousand lines qualified as "big data". And it was further complicated by the mix of paper and electronic log submittals.

In 2021 the computing horsepower is not such a big deal, and just last year the option of paper log submittals was completely removed from several contests and nobody seemed to notice.

Tim N3QE
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