Why not finish a contest, immediately produce the required file, and then
immediately e-mail it and be done.
----- Original Message -----
From: <Jimk8mr@aol.com>
To: <Dave_Hoaglin@abtassoc.com>; <CQ-Contest@contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 16:55
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] New log deadline for ARRL contests?
> In a message dated 6/4/02 11:18:53 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> Dave_Hoaglin@abtassoc.com writes:
>
> > One change that was new to me is a shorter deadline for submitting logs
for
> > ARRL contests --- instead of 30 days after the contest, it would be 15
days
> > after the contest. (As I recall, Dan said that this would apply to the
> > 2002 November Sweepstakes and later contests. From later information,
> > however, it is not clear to me whether the change has been adopted or
is
> > merely under consideration.)
>
>
> I find that if I submit a log 29 days after the contest, it is probably
> because I have forgotten about it since about day 3.
>
> It would be nice to have some automated service for which one could sign
up,
> that would look at a sample of early arriving logs, and if it detects your
> call as having been on the air but shows no log received from you, would
send
> out an e-mail message asking/reminding you to send in your log. This might
> happen 10-15 days after the contest.
>
> Something like this has been done for the sprints, I suspect with some
human
> intervention.
>
>
> 73 - Jim K8MR
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