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

[mm0bqi]

Here, here!
I agree that there is a place in the contest calendar for events such as
this.  Along with other measures it could help raise the bar within UK
contesting.  Submission times are too long and should be brought down. The
immediacy would bring a whole new fun element and as always if you don't
want to participate then don't!, but let's not pour cold water on what
could be an exciting event.
The adjudication software we currently use produces 'raw' results within
minutes. The adjudicators time is then spent examining and judging each
mismatch that the program highlights.  In my experience (80m CC and IOTA
adjudication)  very little changes position wise after the initial
adjudication process regardless of how deep or thorough the examination of
the logs is.  There are of course exceptions but an event like this would
have to trade a certain amount of adjudication accuracy for the immediacy
of the results.  The technology is available to receive logs, adjudicate,
produce results and to send UBNs within a couple of hours.
Sounds like a good bit of fun to me!
73
Jim,  MM0BQI

On 18 July 2012 17:04, Chris Tran GM3WOJ <gm3woj at christran.net> wrote:

> Hello all
>
> I agree 100% with Nigel. At the very least we should be reducing the
> submission times year-on-year until they reach the 1-2 hour max. level. Yes
> the CCs are 'starter' contests, but club members are not learning anything
> if they think that continuous paper logging and transcribing is the way
> forward.
>
> Similarly, why is there so much human input to the adjudication process ?
> Again this could be 99% automated, with UBNs sent out within an hour of the
> submission deadline - any resulting appeals looked at (by a human) and the
> results published say, 24 hrs after the log submission deadline.
>
> The lack of any significant penalty for busted callsigns or exchanges is
> not
> teaching new contesters anything either.
>
> UK contesting need to wake up a bit and move into the 21st century !
>
> 73
> Chris
> GM3WOJ
>
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