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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