I've been having a little dialogue with the guys at SK0UX regarding E-QSLs,
which has devolved into trying to figure out an easy way to resurrect the
practice of having contest QSOs count for awards without having to exchange
QSLs, as was the case during the 50s-70s.
It seems to me that the only thing that should be required is for the
awards people to have access to a database containing a list of the calls
TF3IRA (for example) worked on a given band. That would be a pretty small
file, and it should even be possible to store and search the band-by-band
"dupe sheets" of all those who submit logs, without a large expenditure of
computer resources.
I may be naive, but now that the age-old feud between CQ and the ARRL seems
to be over, would you guys be interested in getting together to work out a
standard database format? If that were done, then you could each store
your own databases on your own sites, and use straightforward methods to
verify award claims from the other's records as well as your own.
How about it?
73,
Pete N4ZR
In Wild Wonderful, fairly rare WEST Virginia
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