[NLRS] SEPTEMBER Contest logs (and 10G)

[John (JK) Kalenowsky, K9JK]

Further to John's comments for any procrastinators (as I myself OFTEN 
am)...DON'T be afraid of what the robot says IF you e-mail your log 
today...the PUBLISHED deadline for September VHF QSO Party logs is 
TODAY, October 10th, both IN the QST Announcement and ON the web.

In my mind, that includes ALL of today, certainly if you get your 
paper log in the snail-mail in time to get postmarked with TODAY'S 
date, it SHOULD be accepted.

Similarly with the robot, despite the robot specifying that 0000 UTC 
on October 10th was the deadline (yesterday, October 9th, at 7pm CDT) 
and that there WILL be a message in the robot's e-mail reply stating 
that your submission was received AFTER that deadline if you submit 
today or submitted last night AFTER that deadline, it is my 
*understanding* that such logs DO STILL get forwarded to the Contest 
Department and *should* be acepted.

Further, it is my understanding that the new Contest Manager for 
"other than HF Sweepstakes", Sean Kutzko, KX9X, should now be in 
Newington (yesterday or Monday?) and "ready to rumble" (or getting 
ready to). We should be starting to see his name replace Tom Hogerty's 
on the various web pages where a name is given (such as on the Logs 
Received pages).

73, JK

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John P. Toscano" <tosca005 at tc.umn.edu>
To: "NLRS" <NLRS at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 21:53
Subject: Re: [NLRS] Contest logs & breakfast, and other dates.




Melvynkc0p at aol.com wrote:

> Deadline for Sep VHF is 9 Oct 2359  GMT, nothing in 10 Oct GMT. 
> Robot is
> working for ARRL-VHF-SEP.

Must be a lot of procrastinators like me doing last-minute submissions
and clogging up the robot's work queue. I sent in my September log a
short time ago (tonight), and have not heard yea or nay from the robot
yet. I guess I'll check again before turning in for the evening.

I'm planning to mail in the 10G log. If you try to apply all of the 
even
allowing for the hierarchy of rule precedence, my read is that the 
only
thing that is acceptable for the 10G contest is to hand-write your log
on the official sheets or a reasonable facsimile of the official 
sheets.
  I say this because the rules in one place explicitly say no binary
files (like an Excel spreadsheet), only Cabrillo format files, but in
another place say that Cabrillo format is not needed for the 10G 
contest
(which takes precedence, but DOESN'T exactly say that ANY file format 
is
okay, or even mention any format that works okay). Even the printout 
of
the Excel file violates the rule that says that if you use a computer 
in
any way, shape, or form, to log, then you must submit in Cabrillo
format, and a printout of a computer log is not okay.

Of course, I printed out my log from the Excel worksheet the last few
years and the logs were accepted, so I guess I'm getting all worked up
over nothing...

Thanks for the reminders about log submissions!
73 de WØJT
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