[Cwo] preliminary report for CWO 2012

[Peter Chamalian]

We can talk with K3CT about that.

 

Pete, W1RM

 

From: Art KZ5D [mailto:kz5d at aol.com] 
Sent: Friday, September 07, 2012 8:32 AM
To: jtalens at verizon.net; ad6e at arrl.net; cwo at kkn.net
Subject: Re: [Cwo] preliminary report for CWO 2012

 

Guys, 

 

This NAME problem needs to be corrected in the software of the program. For example, N1MM provides the "NAME" in CWO setup so an operator has to actually manually fill this in. But in many other contests, N1MM auto fills with correct info for the exchange. I think if you ask one of the developers who wrote the module, we could solve that once and for all.But while asking, suggest they also fix it for CWT where the same problem occurs.

 

Also, are any of you members of FISTS? They mailed out a postcard announcing a weekend event in mid September. I once again encourage us to use a mail piece. I know it cost money, but remember many of the active hams today are not necessarily glued to the internet since they (like me) are from a different generation. I think the direct mail piece to ALL club members would be worth while. That's my 2 cents worth.

 

All in all, in my opinion with only the first session, we had a much better showing. Congrats to all of you for a great job!

 

73,

 

Art KZ5D



-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Talens <jtalens at verizon.net>
To: 'Alan Maenchen' <ad6e at arrl.net>; cwo <cwo at kkn.net>
Sent: Fri, Sep 7, 2012 6:09 am
Subject: Re: [Cwo] preliminary report for CWO 2012

So what if NAME is “name” instead of the actual name?   I saw that happened in the creation of one of my logs but figured it was artifact for CWO in N1MM and not germane to the purpose of submitting the log.  I would not use that as a criterion for rejecting logs, frankly.

 

Jim, N3JT

 

From: cwo-bounces at kkn.net [mailto:cwo-bounces at kkn.net <mailto:cwo-bounces at kkn.net?> ] On Behalf Of Alan Maenchen
Sent: Friday, September 07, 2012 1:40 AM
To: cwo at kkn.net
Subject: [Cwo] preliminary report for CWO 2012

 

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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