[RTTY] CQ to accept eQSL for Awards..

[Michael Keane K1MK]

On 1/15/2009 12:41 AM, Joe Subich, W4TV wrote:

> All I need is a copy of a legitimate license for the country
> in question.  Document/graphical editing tools are quite
> sophisticated modifying a legitimate license is not very
> difficult...

Agreed. The difficult step would be securing a copy of a legitimate
license for the country in question.

> Requiring a copy of a government issued ID is as good a form
> of fraud prevention as is available unless you can get IARU
> member societies to register users by checking IDs in person.

But you just said that "Document/graphical editing tools are quite 
sophisticated modifying a legitimate license is not very
difficult..." Yet, you don't see that what you said applies equally well 
to the ease of modifying a copy of a legitimate identity document?

Requiring a copy of a government issued ID provides no better protection 
against fraud than requiring a copy of a government issued license.

 > In any case, none of the arguments over LotW procedures address
 > the documented flaws and fraud in eQSL

Well, you raised the issue of the credibility in of a system "so 
obviously open to fraud".

Just how less open to fraud (by stations from whom copies of identity 
documents are required) do you think LoTW is than eQSL? Do you really 
think that modifying copies of two documents is any more difficult than 
modifying a copy of just one?

73,
Mike K1MK