[RTTY] BARTG sprint

[Jerry Flanders]

At 12:28 PM 1/28/2018, Keith Maton wrote:
>Does anyone else find it surprising how many 
>people clearly don’t bother to read the rules 
>of the contest they’re entering? I lost count 
>of the number of stations who sent a signal 
>report and they weren’t just casual people 
>giving away a few points, some had many hundreds 
>of QSOs. Conditions were poor yesterday but 
>worse today - I struggled with very weak signals 
>on 20m this morning. 73 Keith G6NHU 
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Actually, I have always thought  the BARTG 
contest committee didn't read the well-understood 
requirements that a QSL card needs a RST report 
to be accepted by all awards committees as a 
valid QSL. So most of the QSLs resulting could be 
challenged if some nut wanted to.

I would agree that RST should not be a required 
part of a QSL, but it appears that it presently 
is. Maybe BARTG and other contest sponsors should 
lobby to change that "requirement".

I didn't send an RST, but only a few of my 245 Qs 
sent RST (I distinctly remember one guy who sent 
me a 598 - whazzup with that? Screws up the flow 
to have a non-standard exchange.)

Google "what are the requirements for a QSL card 
as a radio confirmation of contact?", and the 
following info pops up. This is from 
http://www.m0oxo.com/direct-a-bureau-instructions/new-to-qsl-ing-how-to-guide.html 
, and is typical of several I read.


"Contents of a QSL Card

There is some information that needs to be on all 
QSL cards to be valid for the various awards, and 
also to confirm the contact. This includes both 
call signs (yours and the station worked), the 
frequency or band, the mode, date and time, and a 
signal report. This is highlighted in point 3 below;

1) Callsign; Your Callsign needs to be on both 
sides of the card. It needs to be big enough to 
be easily seen by the person who you are sending 
it to. You may also consider (on the rear), 
adding several other of your Callsigns in which 
case you would to have the 'tick-box' option on there (see image below).

2) Your name with Postal and Email addresses (if applicable).

3) QSO information area. This should be large 
enough for you to write all the data needed to 
confirm the QSO. Date, Time (UTC), Band, Mode, 
RST etc etc are all required. ..."