Hello Tim
Thanks for the clarification, this QSO will not change nothing, just few qsos
from Deep South
happy to participate and work some friends, this is a date that not always
possible for me to be in the station, but this time was possible
73,
Jorge
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> El 27 dic. 2015, a las 12:37, Tim Shoppa <tshoppa@gmail.com> escribió:
>
> Jorge -
> Some contests have explicit instructions about how to deal with stations
> that didn't send a valid exchange. For example, the CQ WW FAQ says we are
> supposed to log the zone they should've sent; some other contests say to put
> in a zero for serial number if they don't send a serial number.
>
> For TBDC there is no penalty for busted exchanges so may as well leave it
> in, maybe with a note to the logchecker. I think the log robot deals with
> X-QSO: records, and that's what I'm going to do with the guy who didn't send
> me an exchange last night.
>
> Note that sometimes stations think they are entering contests seriously but
> due to station automation actually don't know their exchange macro is wrong
> wrong wrong. In the most recent running of CQWWCW a big time contester never
> sent a valid exchange, just morse gobbledygook, and because he was uber-SO2R
> maybe he never even knew what he was sending. Probably got asked for a lot of
> fills!!!
>
> Tim N3QE
>
>> On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 10:22 AM, Jorge Diez CX6VM <cx6vm.jorge@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Rod
>>
>> Ups, sorry, didn't notice that reply only to you
>>
>> 73,
>> Jorge
>>
>>
>> Enviado desde mi iPhone
>>
>> > El 27 dic. 2015, a las 11:37, James Rodenkirch <Rodenkirch_LLC@msn.com>
>> > escribió:
>> >
>> >
>> > Jorge - I'm unsure about that one...ask everyone else - send your question
>> > to topband@contesting.com
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > From: Jorge Diez - CX6VM <cx6vm.jorge@gmail.com>
>> > Sent: Sunday, December 27, 2015 7:33 AM
>> > To: James Rodenkirch
>> > Subject: Re: Topband: A "valid" QSO????
>> >
>> > Yesterday, a USA station worked me on the Stew Perry. But didnt send me
>> > his grid locator. I asked him several times and never return with the
>> > exchange
>> >
>> > Maybe he need CX and just called me, so what I must do? Delete this QSO?
>> > Put the default grid locator?
>> >
>> > 73,
>> > Jorge
>> > CX6VM/CW5W
>> >
>> > 2015-12-27 9:09 GMT-03:00 James Rodenkirch <Rodenkirch_LLC@msn.com>:
>> >> Jim K9YC wrote, "A valid contact is the exchange of callsigns and one
>> >> additional piece of information, followed by acknowledgement by both
>> >> stations. When running QRP at the limits of propagation, that exchange
>> >> can take a while."
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Where would one find official documentation to support that posit?
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> I see some verbiage stating that in some sort of ARRL operating manual
>> >> written by Mark Wilson, Jim....is that your "source of support"? I've
>> >> ntalked to ARRL staff who contend one doesn't need anything other than
>> >> the exchange of call signs so....I'm just "axin'"!!
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> 72 de Jim Rodenkirch K9JWV
>> >>
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>> >
>> > --
>> > 73,
>> > Jorge
>> > CX6VM/CW5W
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