[Cwo] preliminary report for CWO 2012

[Alan Maenchen]

I'm fighting to get out from under a great pile of logs!

I've done an initial look at about 1/3 of the logs presently in the IN
basket:
Session 1:  38
Session 2:  40
Session 3:  27

Biggest mistake in the logs is the sent name is "Name"   ;-)
I'm kicking those back to the sender and asking him to fix the log. I'd say
about 1 in 10 logs have THIS error. This is totally ridiculous!

The process is mind numbing:
WA6BNM did an excellent job collecting the logs. Each log is being sent to
me as an individual email attachment. Bruce added a number to the log file
name so I have a quick indication of which session the log is for.  So far,
only one log was a combined log with two sessions worth of QSOs in it. I
have to manually extract each attachment into Notepad, then save it into
the proper session directory. Then I add the basic info of call, name,
email address, class, etc into a spreadsheet.  Later, After log checking,
I'll take each checked log and manually enter the final score for each log.
Then the easy job will be to sort the spreadsheet to see who won.

Significant % of logs are from EU !!!  Probably in the 20-30% range.
That's a tremendous improvement from last year.

Also;  about 30% of the logs came from people who did NOT enter last year.
This represents a good growth curve .. if I don't subtract a similar number
that I think didn't return from last year. Time will tell how this plays
out. Still have over a week before log submission deadline.

After I get caught up in this process, I'll search the logs and try to drum
up significant but missing logs. I have a feeling that will bring in a
bunch more.

73, Alan  AD6E
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