At 12:28 PM 1/28/2018, Keith Maton wrote:
Does anyone else find it surprising how many
people clearly donâ??t bother to read the rules
of the contest theyâ??re entering? I lost count
of the number of stations who sent a signal
report and they werenâ??t just casual people
giving away a few points, some had many hundreds
of QSOs. Conditions were poor yesterday but
worse today - I struggled with very weak signals
on 20m this morning. 73 Keith G6NHU
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Actually, I have always thought the BARTG
contest committee didn't read the well-understood
requirements that a QSL card needs a RST report
to be accepted by all awards committees as a
valid QSL. So most of the QSLs resulting could be
challenged if some nut wanted to.
I would agree that RST should not be a required
part of a QSL, but it appears that it presently
is. Maybe BARTG and other contest sponsors should
lobby to change that "requirement".
I didn't send an RST, but only a few of my 245 Qs
sent RST (I distinctly remember one guy who sent
me a 598 - whazzup with that? Screws up the flow
to have a non-standard exchange.)
Google "what are the requirements for a QSL card
as a radio confirmation of contact?", and the
following info pops up. This is from
http://www.m0oxo.com/direct-a-bureau-instructions/new-to-qsl-ing-how-to-guide.html
, and is typical of several I read.
"Contents of a QSL Card
There is some information that needs to be on all
QSL cards to be valid for the various awards, and
also to confirm the contact. This includes both
call signs (yours and the station worked), the
frequency or band, the mode, date and time, and a
signal report. This is highlighted in point 3 below;
1) Callsign; Your Callsign needs to be on both
sides of the card. It needs to be big enough to
be easily seen by the person who you are sending
it to. You may also consider (on the rear),
adding several other of your Callsigns in which
case you would to have the 'tick-box' option on there (see image below).
2) Your name with Postal and Email addresses (if applicable).
3) QSO information area. This should be large
enough for you to write all the data needed to
confirm the QSO. Date, Time (UTC), Band, Mode,
RST etc etc are all required. ..."
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