Peter Dougherty wrote:
Zoran Brlecic said :

Peter Lemken wrote:

I found that the log program doubled my contacts. Still, valuable to
know that one is somewhere in the log. Great idea.


Really? I find online logs the worst idea ever.

Must disagree, Peter. On-line logs should dramatically cut the number of
"insurance" QSOs, thus reducing the pile-ups and giving more people a
chance.

I will chime up with support for Zoran here.

And I still disagree. Let people make their insurance QSO, but they will
still have to fight their way through the pile up and use their operating
skills to do so. And if you don't know that you worked a station, well, you
didn't work it anyway, no matter what the online log says.

On the negative side (and I believe that one outweighs the possible positive
elements of online logs during an expedition) we have a vast number of
people yelling in a pile up and never listening, because they hope to be in
the log anyway. We see constant requests for URLs on the cluster, we have
people loudly complaining about incomplete logs and we have an attitude that
asks for online logs, no matter how remote the place is and how big the
expedition is.

Online logs are the last nails into the coffin of DXing by skill.

Peter Lemken
DF5JT
Berlin

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