[RTTY] AA0CY Cabrillo Log Is Posted

[Bob Wanderer]

What awards are you referring to?  No requirement for exchanging signal
reports are mentioned in the ARRL DXCC criteria.  Section I Part 4 says that
that confirmation data (QSL I assume) must include the call signs of both
stations, the Entity name as shown in the DXCC List, mode, and date, time,
and band.

73,
Bob AA0CY
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Subject: Re: [RTTY] AA0CY Cabrillo Log Is Posted


Most probably the reason for sending  a signal report, rudamentary and
perfunctory as it is, ---is that it will fulfil the minimum qualifications
for a valid contact.

If you want to get a qsl card that will count for award purposes, you must
have exchanged a signal report and callsign with the other station.  No one
ever suggested that the RST report is accurate.  It just has to be there.
Think about all the 599s exchanged with DX peditions.  However, if the 599
wasn't there, both ops would have to lie when completing their QSL cards
about signal reports being exchanged.

There are contests now in which a signal report is NOT exchanged, so I would
suppose if you tried to use one of those contacts as the basis for a QSL
card that would "count" for awards purposes, you'd have to get the other
station to fib.