[CQ-Contest] e qsl

[N7MAL]

Hi Bill: Yes it should not count even if you blew it. I've been at this almost 50 years so I go back to the time before computers. Over the years I've had cards returned marked not in the log when I'm 110% sure I worked the guy. In those days the excuse was "couldn't read my handwriting", today it is "I typed it wrong". No matter what the excuse it is still not a match. The log is the final determining authority and that is one of the reasons I'm so 'high' on LOTW. Once we start post-editing logs whether they be contest or expeditions then we have begun a slide down a slippery slope. If we begin questioning the integrity of the log then contest wins and DXCC become meaningless. In the modern age of cabrillo and LOTW if I get a contest certificate or DXCC it's real, it has integrity because the logs match.
If it doesn't match it's not a contact.
73


MAL                 N7MAL
BULLHEAD CITY, AZ
http://www.ctaz.com/~suzyq/N7mal.htm

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Bill Turner 
  To: N7MAL ; k-zero-hb at earthlink.net ; CQ-Contest at contesting.com 
  Cc: rtnmi at sbcglobal.net 
  Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 14:15
  Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] e qsl


  What counts as close? Two things are required, IMO:

  1. I am convinced the QSO did take place (correct time, date, band and mode)
  -and-
  2. The mistake in copying the call was mine, and no fault of the other station.

  Do you really think the other station should be punished for MY error? 
  Doesn't seem right to me.

  --
  Bill, W6WRT
  _______________________________________________________________

  Original Message:

  At 09:15 PM 5/2/2005, N7MAL wrote:
  >The remarks made W6WRT & KE5CTY are so far out of line I can't believe I 
  >read them. W6WRT freely admits he sends out QSL cards even if they are 
  >just CLOSE. What counts as close, they get your mailing address correct?


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