ARRL wrote: " The rules now require that each claimed contact include
contemporaneous direct initiation by the operator on both sides of the
contact. Initiation of a contact may be either local or remote."
The phrase "contemporaneous direct initiation" is an interesting nuance. I
can personally think of attempted CW QSOs where both sides initiated the
contact successfully, but either or both sides may not have completed the
QSO. This could be caused by miscopying the call, deep QSB, QRM or
otherwise. Both sides usually confirm their QSO by either sending "R TU"
or "CFM" etc.
More importantly the QSO timing should be correct to prevent the "helpers"
on frequency or Chat prompting either side of the QSO...please don't do
that guys! It reminds me of the poor practices that first began in W7PHO
nets..."When last heard (could have been last year) you were 2 by 2...rifle
shot" and then the net control proclaims "Good Contact!". Shameful!
73, Bill W4ZV
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