[UK-CONTEST] RSGB Log Uploader accepting late entries.

[Peter Bowyer]

I always considered an important part my job as an adjudicator was to
encourage people to enter contests. Where inconsistencies and minor
infringement in entries were found, a dialogue with the entrant would
result in a new submission with errors corrected and a warm fuzzy
feeling for the entrant that their entry was important enough for me
to spend the time coaching them. When their next entry arrives present
and correct, that's one more regular entrant on the list.

The important bit of the rules is that which regulates what happens on
the radio. The paperwork parts are there to facilitate adjudication -
and it's well within the adjudicator's gift to apply discretion where
it's warranted. And this includes occasionally allowing entries past
the deadline if there's a compelling enough reason, and it doesn't
impact the adjudication process.

Peter G4MJS

On 2 August 2010 19:25, Rob Harrison <robharrison at g8hgn.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
> Virtually all logs now are via the uploader, so the signature scenario
> wouldn't apply.
>
> Although I have some sympathy with, what was obviously a simple error, not
> signing the sheet, just because it happened to be a leading score doesn't
> mean you can overlook it. If you happened to be on the other side of that
> bending of the rules, i.e. you were disadvantaged by it, then you'd feel
> aggrieved.
>
> The uploader tells you if you've made an error which you can then correct
> and re-upload, BST instead of GMT, no serials, etc. The only thing you have
> to do youself is get the log in on time. Not too much to ask, and generally
> the time given is ample.
>
> I've fallen foul of this one once, due to my own stupid fault, but thems the
> rules.
>
> Bob G8HGN
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Bowyer" <peter at bowyer.org>
> To: <uk-contest at contesting.com>
> Sent: Monday, August 02, 2010 2:12 PM
> Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] RSGB Log Uploader accepting late entries.
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>> On 2 August 2010 13:16, Mike Farmer <G3VAO at arrl.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> A fine example of having a set of rules then bending them to suit - if
>>> there
>>> is a limit EVERY log submited after the date should be reclassified as a
>>> checklog
>>>
>>
>> And so we're back to the days when a European-leading VHF log from the
>> UK was disallowed entry to RSGB and the IARU contests because of a
>> missing signature on a coversheet. And other entries because they were
>> sent by the wrong postal method.
>>
>> Lovely. Welcome to the 1980s.
>>
>> Peter G4MJS
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