[VHFcontesting] Why do you ...

[Ev Tupis (W2EV)]

... contest?
o It's fun
o There's a perceived reward of some sort

... submit a log?
o It's easy to do
o Doing so supports one of the reasons for "Why do you contest?" above

The real question is this:
What is the ARRL's goal; more contesters or more logs or something else?

Since Gene mentions that the Cabrillo-bot doesn't have enough data on which to
determine if there has been a drop-off of unique calls participating in
contests, then it appears that the only dataset available is "logs submitted".

One submits a log because it's easy to do and they are somehow rewarded for
doing so.  I guess the questions that really needs to be asked are these:

o How can log submission be made easier?
o How should log submitters be rewarded?

Regards to all,
Ev Tupis, W2EV