[Alexandria Radio Club Reflector] IARU HF Championship

[KA4GFY]

One thing add about submitting logs, it shows there IS activity on the amateur radio bands.  Given the fact that our allocations are valuable real estate, we can hold on to them by showing the commercial interests who are eyeing our spectrum we really do use it.

73,
Rich, KA4GFY


> On July 18, 2019 at 12:51 PM Ian <iann8ik at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> If you were on last Saturday, logs are due by 8am tomorrow.  There's an
> easy online form at http://www.arrl.org/iaru-hf-championship.
> Even though you might only make a few contacts in a contest (I only had 62
> here) you still want to submit a log for several reasons:
> 1. It's good practice and gets easier every time you do submit a log.
> 2. It gets your call in the "Super Check Partial" databases at
> www.supercheckpartial.com making it easier for other contesters to identify
> you when band conditions are marginal.
> 3. Especially if you only make a couple of QSOs, you definitely want to
> submit so you don't appear as a "unique". This could actually penalize the
> other station by making it look like a busted QSO that wasn't copied
> correctly.
> 4. In some regional contests you might actually win an award!  People have
> won plaques in the Virginia QSO Party with less than 10 contacts!
> 
> And finally, submitting your log to LOTW is not a contest submission. LOTW
> logs are in ADIF format and contest logs are generally in Cabrillo format.
> 
> 73, Ian N8IK
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