Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2003 08:27:03 -0700 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Stu Greene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Busted Calls on VP6DIA
JA1BK has read the complaint that a dxer will have to wait a year to get his QSL card because the VP6DIA operator logged his call inaccurately.
This happens, and to be perfectly fair, neither the dx operator nor the pack is perfect, Mistakes have been made, are being made and will continue to be made. This is the nature of dxpeditions.
Kan has a policy of waiting a year, and if the logged station does not qsl the contact the station which submitted the card will get his contact confirmed on the assumption that the mistake is obvious. In other words, if the dx operator has logged W2MOE and the manager receives a card from WA2MOE, WA2MOE is going to have to wait a year to get that qso confirmed. It is possible that W2MOE made the contact and is a slow qsler.
Kan has written us:
Yes, busted calls are DXpedition problem but audience must understand serious
life condition at uninhabited Island specially very hot or cold place.
There are no showers; they work for a week at 40 degrees Celsius day time temperatures with almost no sleep.
Some DXpedition operators are not always very skilled in the beginning. In the beginning of the first Chesterfield trip the busted rate for one operator was 30%.
WA2MOE
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