[Cwo] preliminary report for CWO 2012

[Jim Talens]

Now I am home from getting new tires on the Acura and having done 26 miles
of bicycling in high humidity and 92 degrees.

 

Looking at the contest LOG setup page there is plain as day JIM.  But in the
Cabrillo file is says "NAME."

 

From: Peter Chamalian [mailto:w1rm at arrl.net] 
Sent: Friday, September 07, 2012 11:30 AM
To: 'Jim Talens'; 'Alan Maenchen'; cwo at kkn.net
Subject: RE: [Cwo] preliminary report for CWO 2012

 

Funny, I didn't work anyone who sent name so if guys who sent in logs with
"name" they must not have had n1mm do any sending.

 

Pete, W1RM

 

From: Jim Talens [mailto:jtalens at verizon.net] 
Sent: Friday, September 07, 2012 7:09 AM
To: 'Alan Maenchen'; cwo at kkn.net
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] 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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