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* The 2013 MiQP Is Now History * * Now, Submit Your Log *
The 2013 Michigan QSO Party last weekend experienced excellent conditions and activity. Within a week of the contest, over 200 logs had already been submitted. Now would be a great time to submit YOUR 2013 MiQP log prior to the May 20, 2013 log deadline.
These days, most of us use our computers to log our contest activity, and simply e-mail our log file to the contest sponsors. While paper MiQP logs will always be accepted, electronic logs allow us to check and score MiQP much more accurately in less time and effort. But participants sometimes make errors with their e-mailed entries, and unraveling these errors to achieve a fair and accurate log checking result consumes a tremendous amount of effort on the part of the log checkers (and in some cases, we can't be correct these errors by ourselves).
Beginning in 2012, MiQP instituted an improved process for submitting electronic logs: the MiQP Log Submission Page. Instead of e-mailing a log, the MiQP entrant goes to this page, types in the callsign they used during the contest and e-mail address, then selects their contest category, operating location, and club name from drop down lists, browses to find their log file on their computer and finally presses an on-screen button to submit their log.
The web page automatically scans the submitted log, checking that all the necessary information is present and seems correct, then performs a quick scoring check of the log. If the log has problems the entrant is informed that the log was not accepted and is shown suggestions how to correct the errors. If there are no problems, the log is saved, the entrant is shown the results of the quick scoring check, a confirmation e-mail is automatically sent to the entrant and the entry is automatically added to the "Logs Received" page on the web site.
Beginning with the 2014 MiQP, the Log Submission Page will be the only method for submitting electronic MiQP logs. As always, paper logs will continue to be accepted, and the MiQP log checking staff will continue to be available via e-mail to assist entrants having difficulty correcting and submitting their logs.
It has been asked why we created this web page to accept logs? The main reason is that it allows us to inform the entrant of problems with their log immediately, not days or weeks later when the log checkers get around to working on it. In 2012, an entrant sent in a nice log with 159 QSOs, however all but one QSO had a received QSO number of "00", which is invalid. Presuming this to be an error with his logging program, we sent the entrant an e-mail informing him of the problem and inviting him to submit a corrected log. The entrant never followed up, and so his final 2012 MiQP score was based only on the one valid QSO.
Secondary benefits of the Log Submission page are that it relieves the log checking team of a lot of tedious, manual handling of the received entries, and allows the entrant to receive better, quicker feedback concerning their entry.
So, PLEASE USE THE LOG SUBMISSION PAGE FOR YOUR 2013 MiQP ENTRY. The link to this page can be found to the upper left of this screen, under "Contents", "2013 Submit Log". If you have difficulties using the page, drop an e-mail to the log checking staff at logs@miqp.org.
Finally, two brief caveats to using the Log Submission page. First, the score summary that it reports is only a rough check that the data in the log is realistic, it is not the final log checking result and score. While it accurately counts duplicate QSOs, it doesn't recognize non-official multiplier abbreviations (ex: "Ohio" instead of "OH"). The official log checking goes to much greater lengths to identify non-official abbreviations and the final score will be accurate.
Second, if you cannot find your club name in the pull down box, simply choose "N/A" and we'll use the actual club name from the file. We try very hard to ensure the list reflects clubs which historically are active in MiQP, however there are always clubs showing up for the first time. If your club is not on the list, make sure we can correctly identify the club name in your file. Don't use abbreviations or acronyms for your local clubs which we are likely not familiar with.
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Chairman/Logchecking: Dave Pruett, K8CC
Web Technologists: Randy Love, WF5X Tim Mitchell, K9TM
Communications: Mark Hinkleman, NU8Z
Awards: Mike Van Buren, WD8S
Log Processing: Ron Majewski, W8RU
Regional Representatives: Hope Francisco, AA8SN Jim Callow, K8IR Ian Hill, K8MM Mike Rudzki, N8MR |
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