> -----Original Message-----
> From: cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com
> [mailto:cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Mark Beckwith
> Sent: December 13, 2006 12:59
> To: cq-contest@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] 15 minute log deadline
>
> > Would it be all that difficult for the contest logging
> programmers to
> > program a button into their logging software that
> automatically sends
> > the log to the appropriate sponsor immediately?
>
> I know it seems odd, but we still can't assume everyone is
> connected to the Internet at their radio station. One day we
> may be able to make that assumption. As a quaint datapoint,
> in the early 1990s the ARRL's Contest Advisory Committee
> debated strenuously whether or not to expect logs in digital
> format. For several YEARS.
Very true, Mark but, considering that, even now, not everyone uses computer
logging, what difference does it make that not everyone has Internet access.
I am not suggesting that this would eliminate all other forms of log
submission. Those that have access can avail of it. Those that don't can be
accomodated in the manner by which they are currently being accomodated.
It's like the real-time scoring that Gerry W1VE set up. Not everyone uses it
but it is there for anyone who can.
It was just a thought.
73 -- Paul VO1HE
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