[RTTY] Software for BARTG Sprint contest

[Roy Dancy]

Good m9orning Mike,

You can always do like I do and NOT send in a log.  I agree Cabrillo is just
too complicated for us old folk.

73 y'all Roy  N4AN

----- Original Message -----
From: <W0YR@aol.com>
To: <SKA@bartg.demon.co.uk>; <rtty@contesting.com>
Cc: <dick@bartg.demon.co.uk>
Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2003 3:36 PM
Subject: Re: [RTTY] Software for BARTG Sprint contest


> Question:
>
> Why do you and other contest managers insist on inflicting Cabrillo on
> everyone?
>
> Would it not have made more sense to notify the amateur public and the
> contesting software writers that they have a year to update/modify their
> products, and THEN require people to use it?
>
> Secondly, why can't contest managers first arrange for a Cabrillo
conversion
> file that could be downloaded from the contest rules site?
>
> Instead, contestants are forced to either buy a conversion program or
search
> around for one and figure out how to use it, hoping that it will not
mangle
> their submission.
>
> At a time that contesters are bemoaning decreasing participation in
contests,
> the breathless rush to Cabrillo has made contesting  less attractive for
the
> casual participant, the very people NEEDED to increase the popularity of
> contests.  While making things easier for themselves, contest managers
have
> now infuriated many of the very people they may wish to attract.
>
> I know I will be branded as wrongheaded in this matter but I have found a
> very large number of casual contest operators who have finally said,
"screw
> it, life is too short for this."
>
> This is clearly a textbook case of:
>
> Ready ------   Fire   ---- Aim!
>
> Mike
> W0YR
> ex-BARTG participant
>
>
>
>
>
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