[VHFcontesting] open logs ruling

[frank bechdoldt]

I would be interested to read something from the ARRL about no open logs other than someone saying it exists. An informed argument is much better than just  saying its so.   So I searched...  So far I see rule changes more friendly to the open logs to use QSOS from CQ contests to help with one's dxcc.
 
here is much bigger issues on HF than we have here and opening the logs is a no brainer there.
 
Also heres an article on what happened when CQ published the logs.
http://www.radio-sport.net/cqww07ssb_logs.htm
 
 
Heres a clip of what I found:
 
Some good news from ARRL: in the ARRL Newsletter from July 25th they announced to drop rule 5 of section III of the DXCC rules. This means that open logs are are not any more subject to possible disqualification from the award program. I think this is good news since internet logs have already become state of the art and best practice in radio sports. We will continue to provide our RRDXA online log to all members all will enhance the service in the future. From my point of view there is just one thing to consider: if a log is opened with all QSOs details, QSL managers should stop correcting QSO data on request like "....I worked you at 09:21 on 21 CW but you got my callsign wrong..." since these kind of requests are obviously too easy with open logs. So please don't change logs unless you are 100% sure about the request. Most DXpeditions do online logs so it's easy for everybody to check whether you got in the log.
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