Topband: ARRL 160

Ward Silver hwardsil at gmail.com
Mon Dec 5 14:25:27 EST 2016


If the web upload app for log submission finds something in a QSO: line 
it can't deal with...

 > The ARRL submission AP tells you to correct the mistakes rather than 
remove or unclaim them and that is NOT RIGHT!

Point of clarification - the app does not really know anything about a 
particular call.  It just knows that the data it found in what it 
thought was a call sign field did not look like a call sign.  (You would 
get a similar error if the Sent Call data is bad or the RST isn't an 
RST.)  It is up to the log submitter as to what to do about that.  If 
the QSO: line is just mis-formatted, rearranging the information to 
satisfy the Cabrillo format is perfectly OK.  If the call sign is busted 
(from typo, mis-copy, or whatever), my suggestion would be to remove the 
line entirely.  Same thing if the the section abbreviation is not valid.

73, Ward N0AX


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