[CQ-Contest] Contest QSLing

[Rob Shapiro - ND3A]

Pete, I'd love to see your proposal be seriously explored but would like to
play devil's advocate.  If Station A claims a contact Station B in a
contest, and both stations have submitted Cabrillo files, how accurately
would the QSO crosscheck be performed?  Would the crosscheck just look for
a band/mode match for a particular date or look for a time match also?  If
yes for a time match, then is it an exact match or +/- some amount.  If +/-
and the QSO occurred around the time of a date change, then there could be
a difference of dates.  I wonder if these details could be worked out?

73, Rob - ND3A


At 03:07 AM 5/4/01 -0400, Pete Smith wrote:
 >
 >The whole E-QSL thing aside, what I would like to see is the ARRL granting
 >award credit for any contest QSO that is verified through receipt of BOTH
 >logs.  Once the Cabrillo files for both are on their system, it should be
 >trivially simple to match them up and confirm a given QSO. This was done
 >manually many years ago -- surely it could be done again with today's
 >technology.
 >
 >For people who participate in ARRL contests to collect credit toward
 >various ARRL awards, submitting a log in order to claim credit should be a
 >lot easier and cheaper than sending individual QSLs to each needed station.
 > The ARRL could make award updates available by query on their members-only
 >web page, and even notify members when they reach an award plateau like a
 >single-band DXCC.
 >
 >Or let's get truly utopian and imagine a situation in which the ARRL and CQ
 >agree on common procedures, so that QSOs in each other's contests count
 >toward each other's awards.  Why not?
 >
 >73, Pete N4ZR
 >Contesting is!
 >
 >The World Contest Station Database
 >is waiting for your input at
 >http://www.qsl.net/n4zr
 >
 >
 >
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