Thanks to everyone who answered my Dupes question, It was great to get the inside view on what to do, Next problem I have is. On a few of my QSO's I didn't get the callers Serial number, be it that I
Hello Trevor, if I don't get the exchange properly and cannot manage to get a repeat that I can decode I will send a NIL NIL (even if the station has left already) and NOT log the Q. Logging it will
I log busted serial numbers as 000. That tells me that I busted the report and, while I know I won't be given credit for it, the other station will and won't be penalized for my error. I learned last
Hi Dick, the other station is supposed to wait until you send them a TU or QSL or confirmation of some sort. We can't just throw an exchange out there and leave assuming that everything will be ok. I
Once again, please do not remove QSOs from your log, if there is any chance that the other side of the QSO is in another log. If you busted the serial number, leave the QSO as is. If it is blank or '
Let me be more precise here: if by any chance I have given the other station a TU message despite the fact that I have a busted exchange...then it's my fault and indeed DO log that Q with whatever nu
This is good practice although some log check software won't accept '000' as a valid serial number. So, it would be safer, and ease the load on log check volunteers, if you used '001' as your dummy s
But has a valid contest QSO then taken place? If I don't copy the other guy's exchange then it seems to me the QSO is not complete. Partial QSOs don't count. I realize I can't control the actions of
No and maybe. No, the station who busted the exchange and puts '001' in the serial number field did not have a valid QSO and log checking will not count his QSO because it will not cross-check with t