On 2018-07-12 11:00, Peter Laws wrote:
Plus a further watering down of the "value" of
a certificate by awarding more of them.
The wording on the web page does indeed indicate this:
"Certificates are available to all contest entrants who submitted a log
before the due date for a category other than a checklog."
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.
I tend to agree that this diminishes the value of the certificate.
Not only that, the web page seems to print certificates for entries not
covered by the Awards section of the rules of the contest! I guess the
Award section of the Contest Rules can be dropped now. The phrasing
"[category] in each ARRL/RAC Section where significant effort or
competition is evident." is meaningless now. For the 2017 September VHF
contest I can print a certificate for someone with a single digit score,
and who placed 4th in an ARRL section.
73,
--Alex KR1ST (FN21fk)
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