[CQ-Contest] Contest reports and awards (DXCC etc)

[W2RU - Bud Hippisley]

Richard DiDonna NN3W wrote:
> As there is no signal report, are all QSOs 
> automatically ineligible for DXCC credit simply because the obligatory and 
> perfunctory 599 or 59 is not part of the exchange???
>   
No, of course not.  ARRL has not required signal reports for DXCC 
confirmations for as long as I can remember.
> While we're on QSO credit, contests and DXCC, has anybody proposed to the 
> League to give DXCC credit to QSOs based upon contest logs???
They used to do that -- for their own contests, at least.  In fact, I 
was surprised to learn recently that they had quit.
>  The 
> contest branch and awards branch should work together to allow a station to 
> flag a QSO in a contest log for DXCC credit once the QSO been verified by 
> log checking software - with the appropriate paperless fee of course..... 
> Busted Qs, incorrect exchanges, NILs and unchecked calls are denied.  I 
> would also deny uniques...
>   
Wouldn't it just be simpler to encourage all contest participants to 
upload their contest logs to LotW?  I suppose ARRL could do it 
internally for log files received by them, but you'd really like log 
files from *all* contests put in the LotW database.

Bud, W2RU