I would be interested to read something from the ARRL about no open logs other
than someone saying it exists. An informed argument is much better than just
saying its so. So I searched... So far I see rule changes more friendly to
the open logs to use QSOS from CQ contests to help with one's dxcc.
here is much bigger issues on HF than we have here and opening the logs is a no
brainer there.
Also heres an article on what happened when CQ published the logs.
http://www.radio-sport.net/cqww07ssb_logs.htm
Heres a clip of what I found:
Some good news from ARRL: in the ARRL Newsletter from July 25th they announced
to drop rule 5 of section III of the DXCC rules. This means that open logs are
are not any more subject to possible disqualification from the award program. I
think this is good news since internet logs have already become state of the
art and best practice in radio sports. We will continue to provide our RRDXA
online log to all members all will enhance the service in the future. From my
point of view there is just one thing to consider: if a log is opened with all
QSOs details, QSL managers should stop correcting QSO data on request like
"....I worked you at 09:21 on 21 CW but you got my callsign wrong..." since
these kind of requests are obviously too easy with open logs. So please don't
change logs unless you are 100% sure about the request. Most DXpeditions do
online logs so it's easy for everybody to check whether you got in the log.
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