[Cwo] preliminary report for CWO 2012

[Alan Maenchen]

Jim,

For CWT it probably doesn't matter since no one looks at the logs after the
event.
For CWO I actually look at the logs and do QSO to QSO comparison to see who
made errors and reduce the score based on a mismatch. The presumption is
the sending station did not err in sending his info (NR, NAME).  Thus when
the software compares my log to his log, it says I copied "RON" while the
other station sent "NAME".  Obviously, I copied wrong and I get the score
ding.

Yes, I could just ignore any log that has "NAME" as the sent info, but that
takes more work. More importantly, people should be competent.  Sending in
a log with this sort of error is just stupid (been there, done that) and it
does cause trouble.

It's easy for me to fix with Notepad, but I'm kicking them all back just to
make the guy aware of this problem.

I don't think it's just an N1MM problem.  In Writelog, I get asked to enter
my NAME with a pop-up window when I tell the logger to generate the
Cabrillo file.  Hard to ignore it.

Hmmmm .... along with my age old promise to enter a DX contest and send
true RST (never did that, but I keep promising that I will some day), maybe
I'll enter Sprint with the name "NAME".   ;-)    Even better than
Rumpelstiltskin.  I know, I have a very strange sense of humor.  Back in
the days of the Internet Sprint, you got a 10,000 point deduction if you
used the name Bevis or Butthead.

73, Alan  AD6E









On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Jim Talens <jtalens at verizon.net> wrote:

> 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] *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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