> Is this the way how topband DXing is done and should be
done???
>
> I think some people are fooled by thinking that the number
of QSLs they have
> from different DXCCs qualifies their efforts and not the
way how they have
> got them...
Zoli,
If everyone could sit and listen to both sides of many "new
countries" being worked, they would realize it really
doesn't matter about the cluster confirmations, schedules,
or thanks AFTER the QSO. One of the first WAZ's published on
160 was with 18MHz contacts and dots put in between the 1
and 8. The guy never even had a good antenna.
Sometime just after or just before the first trans-Atlantic
QSO the idea of actually copying an exchange and making a
100% QSO based on what we actually hear and actually work
disappeared, so there is no reason for anyone to worry about
what anyone else does. Since what we all think is a QSO
greatly varies, it would be nice if we all just smile and
say congratulations to everyone for every contact they think
they made and every award they think they deserve.
Many (or most) DXCC and WAZ totals would change
substantially if non-QSO's were removed and some of the top
scorers of DXCC on multiple bands actually never made many
of the QSO's they claim as 2-way QSO's, so I don't see how a
packet schedule or after the fact packet confirmation
matters in the least. It's all very silly to compare awards.
I like to worry about more important things like the new
antenna technologies that allow shoe-boxes to hold the
contents of railroad cars, and not ruin other people's
enjoyment of what they enjoy doing.
73 Tom
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