[Moon-net] ARRL info re DXCC
Lance Collister
w7gj at accessoutwest.com
Tue Aug 15 07:03:47 CDT 2006
W5UN wrote:
>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."
>
>
>
>73, Dave - W5UN w5un at wt.net
>
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Dave, does this mean that posting a list of stations worked each day on
the internet during an EME DXpedition would invalidate the contacts? I
am confused. TNX and VY 73, Lance
--
Lance Collister, W7GJ (ex: WN3GPL, WA3GPL, WA1JXN, WA1JXN/C6A, ZF2OC/ZF8)
P.O. Box 73
Frenchtown, MT 59834 USA
QTH: DN27UB
TEL: (406) 626-5728
URL: http://www.bigskyspaces.com/w7gj
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