"Busted" calls.

[Jim Reisert AD1C 28-Mar-1993 1652]

------------------Reply to mail dated 26-MAR-1993 21:39:38.67------------------

K2MM wrote:

>I wonder how many
>of us contest ops are that rigorous about not logging a contact when we
>fail to hear that final QSL.

I did not hear the final QSL from a ZS6 on 6 meters I worked in 1979.  He
sent me a QSL card direct.  Sadly, I had to report "not in log", because I
did not log it.  Now if I had written the QSO in the log with a note, and
then received a QSL card in the mail, that would have served as final
confirmation.

I tend not to log contacts when I do not hear the final QSL.  If the penalty
was simply to lose the QSO for a busted callsign/busted report/not in log,
I'd probably leave them in.  Especially if the DX station sends in *his*
log, and I'm in it.  Much like the scenario with the ZS6 above.

73 - Jim AD1C