[VHFcontesting] [VHF] VUCC Card Checking Question

[Jim Worsham]

Sorry Carl, but I am a card checker to and eQSL cards are not acceptable in
any form or fashion.  I have asked the VUCC desk and that is what I was
told.  I agree with you by the way but what you and I think doesn't count.
What the VUCC desk thinks is what counts.

73
Jim, W4KXY

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-vhf at w6yx.stanford.edu [mailto:owner-vhf at w6yx.stanford.edu] On
Behalf Of Carl Steckler
Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 4:29 PM
To: Les Rayburn; vhf at w6yx.stanford.edu; VHF Contesting Reflector
Subject: Re: [VHF] VUCC Card Checking Question

At 03:37 PM 1/28/2009, Les Rayburn wrote:
>Please pardon another newbie question, but here goes.
>
>I'm actively trying to earn VUCC on a number of bands including 6 Meters.
In
>the case of that band, operating for one year has netted me 141 grids using
my
>indoor antenna and 100 watts. Unfortunately, it's only need something like
35
>confirmations of those QSO's. The cost of gathering them has been no small
>affair either, with hundreds of dollars spent already on postage,
envelopes,
>QSL cards, etc.
>
>Yesterday, I noticed that I have perhaps another 15 or so QSO's confirmed
>using the EQSL service. I know that currently the league does not accept
EQSL
>for awards credit (nor LoTW when it comes to VUCC). But I also noticed that
>EQSL now offers a service where I can have the cards printed out and mailed
to
>me.
>
>My question is this. If I opt to have those confirmed contacts printed out
and
>mailed to me, would they then be acceptable for VUCC credit?
>
>73,
>

Les, Personally I do not see this as any different than a QSL manager 
sending out cards for those he/ she manages. I guess if you came to me with 
80 verified cards and 20 EQSL cards I would approve them. However if you 
cane to me with 80 EQSL cards and 20 verified I would tell you to go away. 
At some point there has to be a decision by ARRL on this point.
Carl Steckler W2SGX
VUCC / WAS Awards Manager


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Semper Fi
Carl Steckler W2SGX 
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