[VHFcontesting] ARRL Contest Branch makes online certificates available

[Steve(K1IIG)]

It sure is nice to get a piece of paper to fill up the wall but giving paper 
out for making 1 contact seems a bit to generous. Although I sure
do like winning the 3ghz New England area a few years ago with 5 contacts.
K1IIG

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From: "Kevin H. Phillips" <kh-phillips at 9-5usa.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2018 4:15 PM
To: <vhfcontesting at contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] ARRL Contest Branch makes online certificates 
available

> 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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