> In short, if we give the committee a month past deadline to assemble and
> post to the web the results (or is a month not enough now, guys?
> Tell me if
> I'm wrong), and we can have the final results two months after the contest
> instead of six to eight months, isn't that good enough?
>
>
No, it's not good enough.
I say let's try the proposal for a season. It will force the remaining
entrants to use or find electronic means. It will force us all to be a tad
more prompt with the submissions. With the level of automation we now have,
15 days for submission and 15 days for tallying what should be something
that can be done in 1 or 2 days sounds about right to me. It leaves most of
that last 2 weeks open for unanticipated problems.
You don't reach a goal by setting it low and hope to improve on it later.
When's later, a few more years? Rather, set an extremely difficult goal and
then surprise yourself when you achieve it.
I think this is doable with only level-1 whining about it.
Gary W2CS
>From Sylvan Katz <jskatz@sk.sympatico.ca> Fri Jul 26 23:09:30 2002
From: Sylvan Katz <jskatz@sk.sympatico.ca> (Sylvan Katz)
Subject: [CQ-Contest] making lemonade (was: ARRL report on line scores
decision)
References: <NDBBJODEMLLOGMDJBPCDEEEODLAA.k5zd@charter.net>
Message-ID: <00de01c234f1$1d8ae600$6400a8c0@selfsimilar>
>Maybe to encourage people to join the ARRL? Seems a reasonable goal since
>they are sponsoring the event...
A more reasonable goal would be to encourage more participation in contests.
I doubt if this is accomplished by penalizing non-ARRL entries. In some
contest I understand that now the DX logs account for 50% of the logs - many
or most of which are not the contestants are not ARRL members. (see
http://www.designet.com/k1ir/Downloads/ContestProposal_071702.pdf ). They
are penalized by a 30 day policy that with holds results --- now really does
this inequity increase membership or encourage greater participation?
I kind doubt it. On the other hand I have heard a rumor that this inequity
is likely to disappear with the movement of line scores to the web. This
would be great news for the international contest community!
Now we wait and see :-)
.. sylvan
Ô¿Ô¬
----------------
Sylvan Katz, VE5ZX
Saskatoon, SK
"A Novel Perspective of Amateur Radio Contesting" at
http://www.dynamicforesight.com/~ve5zx
|