Hi Everyone,
After putting in a marathon session this weekend I am happy to report that
the log checking for the 2003 Georgia QSO Party is complete. I will be putting
together the results and write-up and it will be posted to the GQP webpage in
about a week. I was very disappointed that only 8 stations in the whole state
of Georgia even bothered to submit a log. (not including the rovers) I am
sure that the problems we had with the past director contributed to this
along with us having everyone resubmit their logs. I counted over 20
stations that didn't even bother to resubmit.
Now that we have reached this point we need to reestablish our
creditability with the contesting community. I am asking that you all try
to support the contest this year by operating and sending in your logs.
I also hope there are plans for some more rover activity too.
I volunteered to take over as the GQP director because I am interested in
taking it to the level of the CQP and PA QSP Party. Increased activity will
make it fun for everyone. I know what to do to reach this goal based on my
past experience in running the Ohio QSO Party.
That being said... I will be implementing the following rule changes
concerning log submissions for the 2004 GQP.
1) All electronic submissions should be in a Cabrillo format only. Any logs
received in any other format will be classified as check logs.
2) All submissions that have 200 or more contacts should be submitted
electronically. Paper logs with under 200 contacts will be accepted.
Paper logs with over 200 contacts will be classified as check logs.
I do not have the desire or the time to manually enter a 1200 QSO paper
log into my log checking program. Also, you would not believe all the
various types of electronic formats that I received. Converting this data
was the most time consuming task I encountered in checking the logs. I
would like to use the Cabrillo standard so it will allow me to process
logs quickly. There is free software on the GQP website and other freeware
such as N1MM support the GQP. There is no reason why almost everyone can
submit in the correct format.
All comments and suggestions are welcomed and I will be at the club
meeting this weekend to discuss them.
73, Jeff KU8E
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