Hello Tim Thanks for the clarification, this QSO will not change nothing, just few qsos from Deep South
happy to participate and work some friends, this is a date that not always possible for me to be in the station, but this time was possible 73, Jorge Enviado desde mi iPhone > El 27 dic. 2015, a las 12:37, Tim Shoppa <[email protected]> escribió: > > Jorge - > Some contests have explicit instructions about how to deal with stations > that didn't send a valid exchange. For example, the CQ WW FAQ says we are > supposed to log the zone they should've sent; some other contests say to put > in a zero for serial number if they don't send a serial number. > > For TBDC there is no penalty for busted exchanges so may as well leave it > in, maybe with a note to the logchecker. I think the log robot deals with > X-QSO: records, and that's what I'm going to do with the guy who didn't send > me an exchange last night. > > Note that sometimes stations think they are entering contests seriously but > due to station automation actually don't know their exchange macro is wrong > wrong wrong. In the most recent running of CQWWCW a big time contester never > sent a valid exchange, just morse gobbledygook, and because he was uber-SO2R > maybe he never even knew what he was sending. Probably got asked for a lot of > fills!!! > > Tim N3QE > >> On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 10:22 AM, Jorge Diez CX6VM <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> Hi Rod >> >> Ups, sorry, didn't notice that reply only to you >> >> 73, >> Jorge >> >> >> Enviado desde mi iPhone >> >> > El 27 dic. 2015, a las 11:37, James Rodenkirch <[email protected]> >> > escribió: >> > >> > >> > Jorge - I'm unsure about that one...ask everyone else - send your question >> > to [email protected] >> > >> > >> > >> > From: Jorge Diez - CX6VM <[email protected]> >> > Sent: Sunday, December 27, 2015 7:33 AM >> > To: James Rodenkirch >> > Subject: Re: Topband: A "valid" QSO???? >> > >> > Yesterday, a USA station worked me on the Stew Perry. But didnt send me >> > his grid locator. I asked him several times and never return with the >> > exchange >> > >> > Maybe he need CX and just called me, so what I must do? Delete this QSO? >> > Put the default grid locator? >> > >> > 73, >> > Jorge >> > CX6VM/CW5W >> > >> > 2015-12-27 9:09 GMT-03:00 James Rodenkirch <[email protected]>: >> >> Jim K9YC wrote, "A valid contact is the exchange of callsigns and one >> >> additional piece of information, followed by acknowledgement by both >> >> stations. When running QRP at the limits of propagation, that exchange >> >> can take a while." >> >> >> >> >> >> Where would one find official documentation to support that posit? >> >> >> >> >> >> I see some verbiage stating that in some sort of ARRL operating manual >> >> written by Mark Wilson, Jim....is that your "source of support"? I've >> >> ntalked to ARRL staff who contend one doesn't need anything other than >> >> the exchange of call signs so....I'm just "axin'"!! >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> 72 de Jim Rodenkirch K9JWV >> >> >> >> _________________ >> >> Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > 73, >> > Jorge >> > CX6VM/CW5W >> _________________ >> Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband > _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
