Pete, I'd love to see your proposal be seriously explored but would like to
play devil's advocate. If Station A claims a contact Station B in a
contest, and both stations have submitted Cabrillo files, how accurately
would the QSO crosscheck be performed? Would the crosscheck just look for
a band/mode match for a particular date or look for a time match also? If
yes for a time match, then is it an exact match or +/- some amount. If +/-
and the QSO occurred around the time of a date change, then there could be
a difference of dates. I wonder if these details could be worked out?
73, Rob - ND3A
At 03:07 AM 5/4/01 -0400, Pete Smith wrote:
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>The whole E-QSL thing aside, what I would like to see is the ARRL granting
>award credit for any contest QSO that is verified through receipt of BOTH
>logs. Once the Cabrillo files for both are on their system, it should be
>trivially simple to match them up and confirm a given QSO. This was done
>manually many years ago -- surely it could be done again with today's
>technology.
>
>For people who participate in ARRL contests to collect credit toward
>various ARRL awards, submitting a log in order to claim credit should be a
>lot easier and cheaper than sending individual QSLs to each needed station.
> The ARRL could make award updates available by query on their members-only
>web page, and even notify members when they reach an award plateau like a
>single-band DXCC.
>
>Or let's get truly utopian and imagine a situation in which the ARRL and CQ
>agree on common procedures, so that QSOs in each other's contests count
>toward each other's awards. Why not?
>
>73, Pete N4ZR
>Contesting is!
>
>The World Contest Station Database
>is waiting for your input at
>http://www.qsl.net/n4zr
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