[Moon-net] ARRL info re DXCC

[W5UN]

The following was copied from an ARRL bulletin. Please read carefull,
especially the second paragraph..

* ADDITION TO THE DXCC ACCREDITATION CRITERIA (August 11th, 2006).
ARRL
Membership Services Manager Wayne Mills, N7NG, informs: For a
number
of years, it has been accepted practice to post DXpedition QSO
informa-
tion on a DXpedition Web site. Although this information is
generally
limited to callsign, band and mode, it has been useful in
reducing the
number of duplicate contacts in the DXpedition log. Publishing
complete
QSO information, or information from which full QSO information
can be
derived, on the other hand, threatens the integrity of the
QSLing
process, and is unacceptable. There must be some information that
the
station claiming the QSO provides based solely on actually being
there
when the QSO was made. If complete QSO information can be derived
from
information based on the DXpedition log, the QSL manager's job can
be
much more difficult if busted calls are involved. To help
minimize
potential difficulties, therefore, the following restriction has
been
approved by the Programs and Services Committee, and added to the
DXCC
Accreditation Criteria, Section III.

"The presentation in any public forum of logs or other representations
of
station operation showing details of station activity or other
information
from which all essential QSO elements (time, date, band,
mode and callsign)
for individual contacts can be derived creates a
question as to the
integrity of the claimed QSOs with that station
during the period
encompassed by the log. Presentation of such informa-
tion in any public
forum by the station operator, operators or associ-
ated parties is not
allowed and may be considered sufficient reason to
deny ARRL award credit
for contacts with any station for which such
presentations have been made.
Persistent violation of this provision
may result in disqualification from
the DXCC program."



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