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Re: Topband: A "valid" QSO????

To: Tim Shoppa <tshoppa@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Topband: A "valid" QSO????
From: Jorge Diez CX6VM <cx6vm.jorge@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2015 13:11:34 -0300
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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 

Enviado desde mi iPhone

> 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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