Since I read my EMail at work and home, I thought it would be a good idea to
confirm all of the logs I received. I've sent mail to each of the guys
listed as no summary sheet, but thought I'de be extra sure.
CW Logs received
AA6MC
AA7NX - No summary sheet received or I lost it.
K2MM
K5ZD
KE4GY
KI4HN
N4OGW
N4TQO
N6TV
NC6U
NF6H
NV6O
VE4GV
VE4VV
WV9T
SSB Logs Received
K0GU - No Summary sheet received or I lost it.
K5ZD
KB4NT
KE4GY
KI4HN - No Summary sheet received or I lost it.
NC6U
NF6H
VE4VV
WV9T
WB5VZL (Multi-op)
Thanks alot to the guys who did it over EMAIL. It made things much easier.
I wonder if next time we could ask Billy at the league for use of their BBS
for submissions? I find their BBS very easy to use and the fastest/cheapest
way to send in a log.
73
Bill Fisher, KM9P
KM9P@AOL.COM
>From howie cahn <howi@world.std.com> Fri Feb 11 02:19:35 1994
From: howie cahn <howi@world.std.com> (howie cahn)
Subject: Contest QSLing
Message-ID: <Pine.3.89.9402102047.A10063-0100000@world.std.com>
On Thu, 10 Feb 1994, Leonard Kay wrote:
> Well, I can't speak for Ward or Barry, but I would think Of course not, you
> can't expect the ARRL to file away every contest ever contested, to
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> borrow a phrase. >
> Len KB2R
>
Why not? Remember the whole premise of this thread; that it's
incredibly more efficient to do QSLs electronically than by the present
system. The ARRL runs the current system, the out-going bureau with a
room full of cubbyholes filled with cards hand-sorted by paid
staff, the in-coming bureaus with scores of volunteers, the high costs of
sending packages of cards from place to place. For every 'card' you keep
out of the system there's a savings. An electronic system would be
much cheaper. Given modern technology, I don't think the computer and
storage requirements would be that severe. Let me do a real rough
estimate -- even if I'm off by an order of magnitude or two it won't
invalidate the idea. Let's assume that a major contest has 10K logs
electronically submitted, each with an average of 500 QSOs, that there
are 10 such US-sponsored contests per year, and that each QSO requires 20
bytes to store; 10000 x 500 x 10 x 20 => 1 GB, hardly a prohibitive amount
of disk space. The guy in the next office just bought a new 1.2G drive
for $850. This and a computer to go with it and a few more modems and
phone lines could provide a nearly automated system replacing all that
labor, paid and volunteer, all that postage, and be much quicker to boot.
Every year the League could publish, on a CD or two, all the contest QSOs
for the year. The CD would be the archival media; you wouldn't have to
hold more than a year or so on fixed disk. I think it's in everyone's
interests to get as much stuff in a central database as quickly as possible.
Of course, there are other ways to use technology to perform the QSLing
function. If I wanted to send a 'card' to someone here on the Net I could
send a bitmap of the card that you could print out. A lot of people these
days do their QSL printing on their laser printers. What's the difference
if it's done at my QTH or yours? You could also send along a few seconds
of the digitized audio from your SoundBlaster or DVP board of the QSO.
Ultimately, I don't think it's too far fetched for contests to be logged
to a central system in real-time. Remember, we'll soon have gigahertzes
of interactive bandwidth coming into our houses. Again, for many of us
here on the Net, with the right software, we could pretty much do it now.
In the middle of the contest you could see who was on, what their score
is, etc. The Internet Sprint would be a nice place to try it.
73,
howie, wb2cpu
wb2cpu@world.std.com
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