Hi Doug,
As Alex suggests, do submit please. Submission helps us track participation.
Should you wish, submit as a CHECKLOG by changing your log entry category
in your Cabrillo file upload to:
Category: CHECKLOG
Either way, thanks for your many years of participating!
73, Bart W9JJ
Bart Jahnke, W9JJ
Radiosport and Regulatory Information Manager
ARRL - The national association for Amateur Radio®
225 Main Street
Newington CT 06111-1400
bjahnke@arrl.org
www.arrl.org
On Fri, Jan 26, 2024 at 10:58 AM <alex@kr1st.com> wrote:
> Hi Doug,
>
> I appreciate your predicament. I'd still submit the log even if it was just
> to let them know you participated. I would not worry about others getting
> penalized because of errors in your log. In fact, that should simply not
> happen because they are not responsible for it.
>
> <soapbox>
> Now I rarely ever look at the official results myself. Frankly, when they
> get around to publishing the results after a ridiculously long 6 months,
> the
> excitement of the contest has worn off slightly for me. ;) :D I couldn't
> give a rats behind what the posted results are after all that time. I've
> moved on. I often wondered how many hams that entered the contest became
> silent key while they tabulated the results with a slide ruler and abacus
> apparently.
> </soapbox>
>
> I only check the 3830 submissions for a few days after the contest to see
> how folks have been doing, and that's it for me.
>
> 73,
> --Alex KR1ST
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: VHFcontesting <vhfcontesting-bounces+alex=kr1st.com@contesting.com>
> On
> Behalf Of Doug Allen
> Sent: Friday, January 26, 2024 8:13 AM
> To: vhfcontesting@contesting.com
> Subject: [VHFcontesting] To submit or not to submit
>
> For many decades starting in the 1950s I submitted my VHF (and HF) contest
> results to the ARRL. I also reported my results on 3830 kHz back in the
> days, and on the 3830 web site since then. For some 30 years, I often had
> competitive, top 10, VHF (and HF) results as W2CRS, W0AH, and K4LY.
> I'm now age 83, and for the past ten years, I've not had the energy,
> motivation, and concentration to operate the necessary hours to be
> competitive despite probably still having a competitive station. More
> troubling than that, for me, is the realization that I make more logging
> mistakes than when I was younger. I don't know how long the following
> contest rule has existed- *"Contacts with call sign errors ("Busted") or
> that are not found in the corresponding log ("NIL") are removed from the
> log
> and an additional scoring penalty of the QSO point value of that contact is
> assessed."* I think the rule, and computer error checking, are fine, but
> they have eliminated my submissions because I don't want others to be
> penalized by my mistake of not logging them. With 8 VHF+ bands, three
> modes, 3 chat pages,
> 2 computers, 2 rotators, and one failing briain (poor hearing, eyesight,
> and
> memory), I wish I were confident in my logging ability, but those days are
> over, and so too, I guess, the submitting of contest results to the ARRL.
> I
> really appreciate the chance to submit my scores to the 3830 site and see
> how others have done.
> Doug K4LY EM85wb
> Inman, SC
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