On 9/3/2013 12:06 PM, Patrick Barkey wrote:
If I do not get a solid acknowledgement from another station in a
contest, I DELETE the ENTRY in my logging program.
This begs the question -- at what point in a QSO do we cease requiring
confirmations? In other words, if you need to copy a confirmation to log a
QSO, then how does the station sending the confirmation know that you've
heard it?
The station sending a confirmation may have no idea that you didn't copy
it. So should you confirm that you got the confirmation? Maybe several
rounds of this ack-ing just to be sure?
At some point each contest QSO is built on a trust that each station's
needs are satisfied. When that trust is there you hit return and log the
QSO.
Its interesting that some demand an explicit QSL or thanks. I remember
hearing about how one of the top running stations rarely said thank you
or QSL. Instead he simply said "ZD8Z" - which was said to accomplish 1)
the acknowledgement need and, 2) the need to identify one's call often.
73 Rich NN3W
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