The whole E-QSL thing aside, what I would like to see is the ARRL granting
award credit for any contest QSO that is verified through receipt of BOTH
logs. Once the Cabrillo files for both are on their system, it should be
trivially simple to match them up and confirm a given QSO. This was done
manually many years ago -- surely it could be done again with today's
technology.
For people who participate in ARRL contests to collect credit toward
various ARRL awards, submitting a log in order to claim credit should be a
lot easier and cheaper than sending individual QSLs to each needed station.
The ARRL could make award updates available by query on their members-only
web page, and even notify members when they reach an award plateau like a
single-band DXCC.
Or let's get truly utopian and imagine a situation in which the ARRL and CQ
agree on common procedures, so that QSOs in each other's contests count
toward each other's awards. Why not?
73, Pete N4ZR
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