[UK-CONTEST] Online Entries for AFS CW

[g3ory at lineone.net]

Dave,

Could I make a suggestion about how to handle the 80m AFS entries in 
future.

The problem as I see it is that an entry system honed to the needs of 
individual entries is being used for a team entry in which every member 
needs to know which team he is in. OK, he will know he is in the Cray 
Valley team but how does he/she find out if he/she is in the Cray 
Valley A or Cray Valley B?

This is the weak point.  When 80m AFS first started, team selection 
was made by the adjudicator on the basis of the adjudicated scores. It 
was only later that the team selection requirement was placed upon the 
Clubs that entered.
A significant improvement would result from reverting to this original 
system. Now that we are firmly in the realm of computer assisted 
adjudication, there should be no real difficulty in deciding which team 
(A, B etc) an entrant is part of, based on adjudicated scores.  The 
extra work load on the adjudicator becomes minimal and it stops a load 
of to-ing and fro-ing within Clubs trying to decide the composition of 
each team and then advising everyone of which team to state on their 
entry. By which time of course, at least one entrant will have put his 
log in with the wrong team designation.....!!!!

There would still be a need to send a blanket message regarding 
eligibility and meeting place but this could now be independent of team 
selection and a whole lot easier as a result.

I hope you find this helpful.

73 Bob

>----Original Message----
>From: dave at g4buo.com
>Date: 11/01/2010 12:58 
>To: <UK-Contest at contesting.com>
>Subj: Re: [UK-CONTEST] Online Entries for AFS CW
>
>There is a lot of change on the rsgbcc web site at the moment, and 
the
>rules should have been kept in step so once again, apologies.
>
>What we need to know is which club each station represents, so every 
log
>file must be attached to a club via the robot process. We also need 
the
>soapbox of at least one entry for each club to state who is in team 
A,
>team B etc, the normal meeting place of the affiliated society, and a
>declaration that all entrants are members of the club.
>
>73, Dave G4BUO
>
>> On 11 Jan 2010 at 9:28, dave at g4buo.com wrote:
>>
>>> Apologies, I should have updated the 2010 rules. Please submit 
your AFS
>>> entries to the HF Contest entry robot
>>>
>>> http://www.rsgbcc.org/cgi-bin/hfenter.pl
>>>
>>> I will make sure to update the rules on Monday evening.
>>
>> There seems to be two different sets of rules for AFS. The one 
linked
>> from the on line entry form
>> (javascript:popUp(\'hfcontest_rules.pl?contest=afscw&year=2010\')
>> and the one from the home page
>> (http://www.rsgbcc.org/hf/rules/2010/rafs.shtml). The latter says 
we
>> should send an appropriate summary sheet for club entries, but 
there is
>> no mention of this requirement on the robot rules. Is this still a
>> requirement if all logs are submitted via the robot?
>>
>>
>> 73 Dave G3YMC
>
>
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