[VHFcontesting] ARRL Contest Branch makes online certificates available

[Kevin H. Phillips]

On 7/12/2018 12:49 PM, Alex wrote:
> I just checked it out and put in some call signs from the 3830 list 
> and it indeed generates certificates for every entrant no matter how 
> low the score.
>
> Until now, it was reasonable to assume that if you saw an ARRL contest 
> certificate that the person put in a reasonable effort and got a good 
> result. Now you have to read the fine print as it could be a single 
> digit score for placed 28th in the section.
>
Just to give an example of personal experience with this, I am not a big 
contester and do not yet have a good VHF station that I hope to have 
some day (antennas too low is the main thing).  But, I do usually try to 
submit my logs no matter how many contacts I make because I hope it 
helps someone else.  I can't find it right now but I received a 
certificate about a year ago for the winner of a 222 contest (I think) 
in the entire STX section.  I had two contacts and my score was 10, or 
something like that.  It was as big a shock to me as anyone else.  Don't 
shoot the messenger!

73

Kevin
W5TTY

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