[UK-CONTEST] Two hour log deadline ... real progress!

[Peter Day]

On 18/07/2012 13:10, Nigel G3TXF wrote:

> How about the RSGB CC taking a leaf out of their book and
> going even one better, and require that all 80m CC logs be
> E-mailed within ONE hour of the end of the contest? Why on
> earth do we need seven days?
>

Hi Nigel..

Some of our inexperienced club members send me their 80m CC logs to 
reformat into Cabrillo as they log on paper or use Excel etc. I also 
make sure their Cabrillo header info is correct so I really need up to 
three days to get these in and then send to the robot. We would 
discourage our M3s and M6s if they had to send in the logs themselves 
within one hour :-) They have enough problems working the stations and 
sometimes send me logs in BST or with the information in the wrong columns.

We are slowly educating these folk to use software such as N1MM, etc but 
it takes time.

I will add that my own log is usually in the robot within 15 minutes 
after the end of the contest :-)

73

Peter G3PHO