It sure is nice to get a piece of paper to fill up the wall but giving paper
out for making 1 contact seems a bit to generous. Although I sure
do like winning the 3ghz New England area a few years ago with 5 contacts.
K1IIG
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From: "Kevin H. Phillips" <kh-phillips@9-5usa.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2018 4:15 PM
To: <vhfcontesting@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] ARRL Contest Branch makes online certificates
available
On 7/12/2018 12:49 PM, Alex wrote:
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.
Just to give an example of personal experience with this, I am not a big
contester and do not yet have a good VHF station that I hope to have some
day (antennas too low is the main thing). But, I do usually try to submit
my logs no matter how many contacts I make because I hope it helps someone
else. I can't find it right now but I received a certificate about a year
ago for the winner of a 222 contest (I think) in the entire STX section.
I had two contacts and my score was 10, or something like that. It was as
big a shock to me as anyone else. Don't shoot the messenger!
73
Kevin
W5TTY
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