Hi all
I have been working with the Oceania DX Contest Committee on the 2001 results.
>From my experience it would be very difficult or impossible to guarantee the
>processing and
presentation of results for a MAJOR contest within 2 weeks. It might be
possible if
1. ALL logs are in the correct electronic format (a robot is essential)
2. NOTHING goes wrong with the robot process and/or software
3. NOTHING goes wrong with the log checking process and/or software
4. The log checkers and web presentation writers are able to devote ALL of
their time to the task -
not just a few hours during the weekday evenings and on weekends.
The above is a BIG ask!
Lets look for some improvements but we also need to be realistic.
I think 4 weeks is a reasonable submission period. We do not want to discourage
logs from entrants
who cannot make a 2 week deadline. Furthermore some entrants will require
additional time to review
and resubmit logs that have been rejected by the robot.
73
Brian ZL1AZE
----- Original Message -----
From: Ron Notarius WN3VAW <wn3vaw@fyi.net>
To: CQ Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, July 28, 2002 1:23 PM
Subject: RE: [CQ-Contest] making lemonade (was: ARRL report on line scores
decision)
>
> One thing I haven't seen in this discussion yet are comments from someone
> who is on one of the contest committees (or if they have, they haven't
> overtly admitted to it! <g>). I'd still be interested in seeing comments
> from someone involved in tabulating the results as to whether or not a 15
> day turn-around between logs received and results published is practical.
> I've been involved in a few local contests with tabulating logs (granted by
> hand), and I know how much a pain doing "only" a couple of hundred are. I
> can only imagine how much is involved with thousands -- but I'd rather hear
> from someone who is currently doing it, especially with the tools now
> available.
>
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