[UK-CONTEST] Paper Logs/Time to Stop!

[Mike Farmer]

If you follow this logic then we must also change the license requirement to
only permit electronic logging. Thus making the hobby even more expensive
leading to fewer new amateurs and a quicker death of the hobby.  I know of
amateurs who are proud of their traditional (paper) logbooks and I see no
reason to enforce electronic logging (apart from to make contest
adjudication easier).  We have a wide ranging hobby and I suggest we should
be able to cope with all aspects.

73 de Mike
G3VAO
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nigel Cawthorne" <G3TXF at compuserve.com>
To: "UK Contesting" <uk-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 10:13 AM
Subject: [UK-CONTEST] Paper Logs/Time to Stop!


> To : UK Contest Reflector
> From : Nigel G3TXF
>
> Isn't it time that the "softie approach" towards
> accepting paper logs be dropped for all contests?
>
> Log entries should be 'electronic or nothing'. Ours
> is supposedly a technical hobby, after all.
>
> Quoting Clive GW3NJW :
>
> "The major impediment will be the need to retype all the paper
> based logs, a necessary prerequisite for automated checking
> of the complex exchange for this event."
>
> I couldn't agree more.
>
> Why on earth should the adjudication process for any contest
> have to involve manually entering paper logs any more? It is
> a major imposition on the time of the adjudicator, particularly
> with a big contest. Adjudicating time should be spent doing
> just that i.e checking, cross-checking, analysing and tabulating -
> and not typing in logs for those unwilling to make the effort
> to provide an electronic log.
>
> Let's move with the times and firm up the rules for the RSGB's
> contests so that ALL entries have to be electronic and
> paper logs are no longer accepted, even as check-logs.
>
> [I cannot think of anything more useless than a paper
> check-log!]
>
> It's a nonense that adjudicators should have to type in
> logs for those too bone idle to provide logs in a suitable
> format. OK if we lose a few entries, so what.
>
> Come on RSGB HFCC - take a stand on this - make it
> part of the general rules for 2003 - "only electronic logs
> are acceptable".
>
> 73 - Nigel G3TXF
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