[CQ-Contest] 579

[John Unger]

I thought there had to be a "moderator" helping to count "1, 2, 3, 4, ..." 
and then telling you that it is a "good" QSO.....

73 - John, W4AU


At 06:13 PM 3/25/2013, W0MU Mike Fatchett wrote:
>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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