[NLRS] Logging

[Dr. Gerald N. Johnson]

On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 09:41 -0600, Mike KBØozn wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> I'm sure I've asked about this before so I'm sorry if it seems like old 
> hat but I'm still stuck.
> 
> I was just reading about the sprints and it made me think of contesting 
> in general.  I like to participate in them when I can but I frequently 
> am left feeling bad because I don't send a log in.  This is something 
> that I haven't really figured out yet.  I've always just used paper and 
> pencil to start with, but I use either a book, or a format that can't 
> simply be sent in as is and the time required to transcode it as it were 
> prevents me from sending it in.
> 
> I guess I'm looking for ideas, and specifics, not just I use xyz 
> program.  How do you use the program?  Do you have a computer right next 
> to the radio?  Does it control, or talk to the radio?  How do you type 
> and talk at the same time? (I only have 2 hands  lol) Perhaps stories of 
> how you evolved into what you currently use?
> 
> Perhaps this could be a forum discussion at Aurora?  Or perhaps people 
> could simply offer advice on line here.
> 
> Thanks again all,
> 
> Mike
> KB0ozn/AE  (wahhoooo) ;)

ARRL has printed a log book for at least the last 60 years. It has had
some variations in format, but it works. I put received grid in the
received report column and sent in the sent column, copy the pages on a
copy machine and send them in. They are accepted. The last time I
submitted a FD log, I use 6x8 cards for the log and dupe sheet (200
contact operation, not big time), copied them and sent them in and made
the QST listing.

I used to take my paper log, enter it into a spreadsheet for dupe
checking and grid counting, but then they insisted it be in cabrillo
format if it touched a computer so they have to put up with my
scribbles. For the first couple years of that rule they didn't even have
a consistent cabrillo rule.

I prefer to keep the computers quiet, that way the noises in the bands
are smaller, there's nothing less productive than computer hash on top
of a weak signal unless its loosing the whole log from a wrong keyboard
entry.

-- 
73, Jerry, K0CQ,
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