[PaQSO] Scoring announcement

[Michael Coslo]

re summary sheets

I’m trying to correct a long standing problem.

In our awards and addressing and many other functions of the party, we use a Filemaker Pro database. Having a summary makes my life a lot easier when I can get the info right into the database. 

Some issues that have come up is that I have been accused of using the summary sheets to avoid checking the individual logs. Not remotely the truth. 50 percent of the logs that come in have never had a summary sheet, and many software programs do not score correctly, or do not differentiate mults do not calculate a summary sheet correctly, or county line stations get 2 qso’s instead of 1, people log dupes, and not all software records them, and some programs allow really creative spelling for mults and counts all of them as  a mult - finally someone broke the 67 county barrier!!! hehe So everything has to be checked. 

And that checking is done solely by me and me alone. The process is not automated, as I have been a spectacular failure in getting fully automated software. When I start explaining what we need, the programmers eyes kinda glaze over, and that’s the end of it.

This year, perhaps because I eliminated the mailed in summary sheet requirement last year, I’m getting even less summary sheets than usual, when people assumed that none was needed at all. Plus after the online summary got corrupted on the website, I figured it was going to be easier for me to just generate them myself instead of sending out emails to have people re-do the summary with the new file. Hundreds of emails will take a lot of time.

So the summary sheets are a big help, and most logging software will make a fairly good one with only a few mouse clicks.

Regardless - I don’t want to whine, so the takeaway is I can always use a smidgem of help to serve the party Ops better.


- 73 Mike N3LI - 


> On Nov 9, 2015, at 12:22 PM, n3xls at juno.com wrote:
> 
> Mike, 
> I would assume not getting a summary sheet is one of the biggest issues? Hence the bonus?
> 
> 
> ----- Reply message -----
> From: "Michael Coslo" <mjcn3li at gmail.com>
> To: "paqso" <paqso at mailman.qth.net>
> Subject: [PaQSO] Scoring announcement
> Date: Sat, Nov 7, 2015 2:39 PM
> 
> 
> Starting with the 2016 Pennsylvania QSO Party there will be a 300 point bonus for sending in a summary sheet.
> 
> Either the sheet provided by the PAQSO, or the summary sheet provided by your logging program.
> 
> Either via email or via snail mail is acceptable.
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