[UK-CONTEST] CQ WW webinar 21st October

Chris G3SJJ g3sjj at btinternet.com
Tue Oct 23 05:35:58 EDT 2012


Bob, the actual contest, ie exchanging QSOs, might be over but it is intelligent amd mncessary to chcek through the log to corerct ant tyopos, as you 
can see by this incirrected email. Back in the days of paper logs we positevly encouraged entrants to rewrite their logs top amke sure they doidn't 
lose points uncesarily. Paper and pencil have ben replaced by a keyborad and it is wrong to assume taht someone who was adept and writing are equally 
adept at typing.

I will continue to put my contest log ointo Excel when convenient and to do various sorst and cahecks. I am sure you wouldn't expaect me to always 
send emnails or write reporst etc like this one?

73 Chris G3sjj


On 23/10/2012 08:42, Bob Henderson wrote:
> I too have confidence in K5ZD.  He is thoughtful, has good attention to
> detail, is a great communicator and so far as I can tell, is of the highest
> integrity.  I cannot think of a better person to take up the reins of CQWW.
>
> I thought Randy's mention of the fact that logs may be resubmitted as many
> times as wished up to the log deadline was more to do with explaining the
> mechanics of the current mechanism.  This was apparently necessary as some
> folks intending a single band entry had been submitting a single band log
> and then following that with an all band log submitted for check log
> purposes.  He was pointing out that so far as the robot is concerned the
> last log posted against a call prevails.  So the erstwhile single band
> entrant, unknown to himself, became an all band entrant.
>
> That the robot incorporates a Cabrillo integrity checker is a good thing.
> This alerts combatants to any formatting problems requiring attention and
> resubmission.  The principle behind the changes is intended to get us
> closer to ensuring that contesting is over when the end bell rings.  I
> think these efforts are to be applauded.
>
> 73 Bob, 5B4AGN
>
> On 23 October 2012 07:17, Chris Tran GM3WOJ <gm3woj at christran.net> wrote:
>
>> Hello Ian GM3SEK et al
>>
>> You wrote :
>>> Their own robot, which will warn about many kinds of logging errors and
>> then will allow entrants to re-submit as many times as they wish (up to the
>> deadline). This seems >inconsistent with their tough line about
>> post-contest corrections... or at least, with some versions of it.
>>
>> If I understood correctly what K5ZD was saying, this new 'Logcheck'
>> facility ( http://www.cqww.com/logcheck ) is for correcting errors in the
>> structure of your Cabrillo logfile before submitting - e.g. wrong category
>> etc, not for correcting QSO errors like callsign or zone.  I may be wrong.
>>
>> The Webinar is online at http://wwrof.org/webinars/**webinar/<http://wwrof.org/webinars/webinar/>and the section about Logcheck starts at 46.00 minutes approx. (The audio
>> is not as good as the live event, but seemed to improve once the whole file
>> had downloaded)
>>
>> K5ZD has only been in the job for 3 weeks so it will take him time to sort
>> out and clarify everything, but I got a good impression of his intentions
>> when listening to him.
>>
>> 73
>> Chris
>> GM3WOJ / GM2V
>>
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