On Mon,7/25/2016 2:42 PM, Wes Stewart wrote:
It's almost as bad in the states if you have 160-meter cards. For the life of me I can't understand why any card checker can't do 160 QSLs.
The requirement is that a card checker must have achieved 160M DXCC him/herself before they can check 160M cards. The reason is pretty simple -- some operators were cheating by doctoring cards -- for example, by changing 18.1 MHz to 1.8 MHz. The logic is that a card checker should know enough about 160M propagation (and perhaps even activity) to know whether a QSL might be invalid because it occurs at a time when the band could not possibly have been open between the two stations (for example, no common darkness over a realistic path, taking greyline into account).
Sorry, but some folks aren't ethical. :) 73, Jim K9YC ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
