Over on the contesting reflector, there have been days worth of posts suggesting that 3830 postings by contesters be required so you can see “results” faster than the contest sponsor’s results.

While 3830 is a fabulous service and I strongly advocate posting scores there, 3830 is there for fun. It is one of the best services ever offered to contesters and we can thank “Dink” for all that hard work building the automation that makes it all possible.

But 3830 is not the contest winner site.

Yes, some contesters will look at 3830 and decide to change their entry. Yes, some contesters will look at 3830 and sandbag their scores until the end.

But that entirely misses the point: the contest results come from the contest sponsor, not 3830.

It is not a contester’s requirement to post to anything except turning in their log to the contest sponsor. Everything else is hooey.

Scot, K9JY

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