ARRL wrote: " The rules now require that each claimed contact include contemporaneous direct initiation by the operator on both sides of the contact. Initiation of a contact may be either local or remote."
The phrase "contemporaneous direct initiation" is an interesting nuance. I can personally think of attempted CW QSOs where both sides initiated the contact successfully, but either or both sides may not have completed the QSO. This could be caused by miscopying the call, deep QSB, QRM or otherwise. Both sides usually confirm their QSO by either sending "R TU" or "CFM" etc. More importantly the QSO timing should be correct to prevent the "helpers" on frequency or Chat prompting either side of the QSO...please don't do that guys! It reminds me of the poor practices that first began in W7PHO nets..."When last heard (could have been last year) you were 2 by 2...rifle shot" and then the net control proclaims "Good Contact!". Shameful! 73, Bill W4ZV _________________ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
