[CQ-Contest] 579

[W0MU Mike Fatchett]

I cannot find anything in the DXCC rules that say you must exchange 
anything other than a callsign. Maybe it is elsewhere.  I would assume 
that in a net scenario where the DX is fed the callsign some other form 
for data must be exchanged ie a signal report.

Mike W0MU

On 3/25/2013 7:09 AM, Zack Widup wrote:
> I thought I saw somewhere that in order to consider a QSO valid, you
> had to exchange callsigns and one other piece of information. The
> other piece of info can be anything. We typically exchange signal
> reports as DXers but on VHF it's usually grid squares. Exchanging
> signal reports on VHF is more rare.
>
> Some contests don't have a signal report as part of the exchange, e.g. NAQP.
>
> 73, Zack W9SZ
>
>
> On 3/24/13, David Gilbert <xdavid at cis-broadband.com> wrote:
>> Well, actually it IS a bad analogy because it isn't an analogy at all.
>> Saying that signal reports aren't checked for DXCC and saying that DXCC
>> doesn't require a signal report is exactly the same thing.  Please
>> explain the difference if you disagree.
>>
>> Dave   AB7E
>>
>> p.s.  Please tell us which major contests you know of that verify signal
>> reports as part of the log checking process and assign a penalty for an
>> error.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 3/24/2013 3:35 PM, Tom Frenaye wrote:
>>> At 02:47 PM 3/24/2013, David Gilbert/AB7E wrote:
>>>
>>>> 1.  Log checking does not include the signal report for any major contest
>>>> I'm aware of.  It isn't even checked for DXCC.
>>> And DXCC does not require a signal report.  Bad analogy.
>>>
>>>      -- Tom/K1KI
>>>
>>>
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