[RTTY] EQSL

[Iain MacDonnell - N6ML]

eQSL does automatically match contacts if both parties upload logs and
everything "lines up". These appear in your eQSL inbox as (already)
"confirmed" contacts. Requests from others that do not match your
uploaded logs show up in your inbox too, but with options to confirm,
send a clarification the other party, or reject.

eQSLs wouldn't count towards an award unless the contact was confirmed,
either automatically, by matching of logs, or manually, by the other
party clicking on "Confirm". In other words, there does have to be some
positive action by the other party before the contact is valid.

I do agree that this system is open to trolling, where LoTW is not.

     ~Iain / N6ML



Alfred Frugoli wrote:
> My understanding of eQSL is that it's just a digital QSL card and there is
> no match involved in the system at all.  I enter QSO data, and a card gets
> sent to the recipient.  If it's not a valid contact, the recipient must
> reject it.  If they don't, eQSL will count it as a valid QSL for award
> purposes.  Just as if you sent me a QSL card, but you actually worked K1FO,
> not KE1FO.  It's my responsibility to check my log and make sure the contact
> was valid before I use that card for my WAS award.  The WAS card checker may
> look for signs of fraud on the actual card, but they would take my word that
> the QSL card is for a contact I actually made.
> 
> 73 de Al, KE1FO
> 
> -----
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> 
> 
> On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 12:36 PM, Ken Brookner <kenb at brookner.com> wrote:
> 
>> hummm..  then why do i get "cards" from other stations for whom i've
>> never uploaded any data?  i think the match process is for award credit
>> only, otherwise you just get a "card" in your inbox same as you might
>> via mail or the bureau.  am i off base here?
>>
>> kenb, ky5g
>>
>> Rick Smith wrote:
>>>      EQSL matches the callsigns and a time window to put it in the other
>> station's inbox.  He decides if it matches or is a reject for either of you
>> to get credit.  The RTTY pileup mess of Belize last year when some folks did
>> not put a space after their last callsign in an answer to me and stuff ran
>> together created some interesting callsigns.  Folks that I knew did not do
>> RTTY were showing up in the composites that flowed across my screen.  That
>> is another soapbox, sorry!
>>> KT7G
>>> Rick Smith
>>> 360-896-0221
>>> http://home.comcast.net/~macrosmith/MACROSMITH.html<http://home.comcast.net/%7Emacrosmith/MACROSMITH.html>
>>>
>>>
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