Fw: [PaQSO] PAQSO Results on line and news

[Mark Kempisty]

Mike,

I find it interesting that after all of the private messages I sent and at 
least one voice message I left WITHOUT any responses, that when I decided to 
go public with my issues I FINALLY get a response.  This is why I have 
decided to continue this publicly.

For the record I used WB3W's PQP logging software and while it prints a 
reasonable facsimilie of the summary form, electronic versions of the same 
are strangely formatted.  Probably due to the HTML but that is beyond my 
immediate control.

However, if I had been told that there was a problem (which I NEVER was) I 
would have taken care of the issue as soon as possible.  The PQP and my 2007 
BED effort meant enough to me that I wanted to make sure my logs were in.  I 
suspected that there was a problem when the other logs sent in the same 
envelope (I coordinate WARC's entry) were listed on the log's received page 
but mine wasn't.  That was when the e-mail queries and eventual phone 
queries started.  All WITHOUT responses.  It wasn't listed until after I 
blindly sent the electronic logs in December.  And that was an act of 
desperation.  Upon listing, it did note that a summary sheet was received. 
I also included a note when I e-mailed the 2007 BED log indicating the 
summary was badly formatted and if it was a problem that I would create 
another.  Again, no response.

I don't know why my PQP log's suddenly have problems.  They went in fine for 
years including 2002 CLI which needed the extra Worked all 67 list.  2003 
CAR and multiple BUX never had any issues indicated to me. 2005 SUS was 
misplaced and now 2007 BED gets misplaced again.  I can understand SUS 
getting mis-handled with the change in chairmanship that year.  This 
happened to a lot of logs that year amongst other hiccups.  But an e-mail 
for the SUS log got things rolling to get it sorted out.  The logs received 
page was intended to address the lost logs issue.  For 2007 BED I detected 
an issue on the logs received page, queried REPEATEDLY, got no answer and 
finally blindly sent in what I had.  Additionally, I enabled read receipts 
on the e-mails and received acknowledgements that the e-mails were opened 
but I never received any reply to the contents of the e-mails..

I fully understand NARC is not the ARRL or CQ magazine with a dedicated and 
paid contest handling staff.  And I accept I may not get a reply to a 
question for several days.  But to not receive any replies from November 
2007 until now further demonstrates my point that I had no opportunity to 
correct any issues.

I followed the NARC's PQP rules and guidelines, printed a resonable summary 
form substitute (and you probably have a bunch of others in the smae format) 
and sent everything in by the original deadline.  When I detected a problem 
and asked about it, a single sentence reply that you do not have the log or 
the summary sheet needs to be redone in proper format was all that I needed 
to hear.  Again I got nothing until now.

I have created a new summary sheet so you can include my 2007 BED log in the 
official results.  I will scan this into a PDF file and send it to you via a 
separate e-mail.

73,
Mark N3GNW