[UK-CONTEST] Re: Computer Logs

[Peter Hobbs]

Ian Pritchard wrote:

I can see the scene now.  Wristwatch on the desk .. gmt of course.  . AR88 receiver plus a homebrew Transmitter.  Ex-RAF morse key.  Sheets of paper with the serial numbers already written in.  Oh yes and that cardboard dupe sheet .. suffixes first. All very quaint.

Ian, you must have second sight, only the rig is a little out of date, but you must allow an LG300  in this day and age!  Don't forget this forum is somewhat self-selecting in terms of a minimum of computer savvy, but I see no reason why all those of us who actually enjoy  CW or SSB contest operating should be brow-beaten into converting to a remote and artificial data mode.  

Contest organisers who insist upon specially formatted entries should at least make available, or point to, a freeware data entry package for those of us who still prefer to operate off-line.  Only then will it be appropriate to consider a time-table to limit hard copy entries.

Regards

Peter G3LET


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