[VHFcontesting] VUCC Card Checking Question

[Jim Forsyth]

Don't you have to locate the QSO in the log so that you can confirm the QSO 
whether or not he supplied your grid?

Jim, AF6O

> Still doesn't hurt to use the 6 digit grid...  My biggest "pet peeve" when
> receiving QSL's, especially after a contest rove, is the sending station 9
> times out of 10 neglects to indicate which grid _I_  was in when the QSO
> was made.  In order to properly confirm, I have to dig thru several pages
> of contest log in the hopes of finding the QSO so the person sending me
> the card gets credit for the appropriate grid square!!!!  More to the
> point, these usually are SASE, some even have prefilled QSO information,
> requiring me to sign and return...  BUT without that critical bit of
> information, it sits in the QSL "inbox" until I can "getaroundtuit"...
>
> Something to think about when the portable guys go out to light up those
> rare ones!!!
> Eric
> KB7DQH