I guess maybe I've missed something here. Let's assume that W4ZR works
someone in CQWWCW that I need for DXCC. They publish the log, and I write
to the QSL manager and claim that it was me, not that W4 guy. I get a QSL,
and then W4ZR writes to the same manager and asks for a QSL. I am SO busted...
Wouldn't the risk of this happening be enough to deter most sane people?
I got into a real debate with Wayne not long before he left the League
about pre-emptive QSLing - relying on my log to QSL everyone I thought I'd
worked, without waiting for a card from them. Eventually, he allowed as
how what was OK for an N4 would not be for a DXpedition to Kosovo. Yet
increasingly, DXpeditions and individual travelers are uploading their
entire logs to LOTW. Frankly, I think Wayne was way out on the far end of
the bell-shaped curve in his approach to the sanctity of DXCC as well as,
for that matter, the security of LOTW.
73, Pete N4ZR
At 10:46 AM 3/6/2008, VR2BrettGraham wrote:
>KR2Q shared with us http://www.arrl.org/arrlletter/06/0818/
>
>If I'm not mistaken, 2006-08-16 would have been some
>time before CQ WW published the logs of every single
>entrant from 2006. Like a little over a year.
>
>According to http://www.arrl.org/?artid=7109 N7NG
>left the ARRL as of 2007-01-16. This is a bit more than
>a half a year before CQ WW first published logs.
>
>Both the rule change & whatever N7NG might have said
>were well before the publishing of the logs of every single
>entrant of the most popular radiosporting event.
>
>The context in which the rule change was made was
>_not_ the publishing of so many logs - including quite a
>few that folks might want to claim credit for contacting -
>but some far fewer number (something like several
>thousandths) of DXpedition logs that went beyond what
>was necessary for one to establish that they were in the
>log for a given band/mode.
>
>And unless N7NG was asked specifically about the
>publishing of every single log submitted for CQ WW,
>then his answer appears to be have taken quite some
>ways out of context.
>
>73, ex-VR2BrettGraham/p.
>
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