I would think reviewing recorded audio to be OK. I think that would be making use of a valid new technology, akin to the use of a new preamp or better antenna. IMHO, a valid contact is completed when the required info has been exchanged both directions *on the air*. If you had the right info in a recording, then you did receive it over the air so I personally don't consider that "cheating". If you pulled some bit of missing info from something other than *your radio*, or a recording made from *your radio* and *during the QSO in question*, then I don't think it should count as a valid contact. "Your Radio" in this case would be the radio or other RX/TX equipment controlled by you and located at your station.
I'd be OK with a remotely operated station too, but you'd need to be receiving and transmitting from that same remote station and the contact should count as having been made from the location where the RX/TX equipment resides. What's the point of DXing if you just have to connect up to (using something like the Internet) a remote radio that's across the street from the "distant" station? A phone call could do that. The entire point of DXing (and contesting) is to *use a radio* to make the contact, and I think most would agree that if the radio signal isn't what is being used to bridge the vast majority of the distance between two stations then you didn't really make a contact with a radio signal. I think post-processing of a recording is probably OK too, as it would be similar to the use of DSP or other below-the-noise-floor receiving techniques that integrate a signal over a long period of time. Such systems are in fairly common use these days with the EME guys, I don't see why they should be unacceptable on the other bands although I can understand those with the "I didn't complete the contact *during the QSO*" argument. -Bill KB8WYP > either. Reviewing recorded audio after the fact is a "gray area" for > me. Technically it's a cheat, though I will admit on a few occasions > when I reviewed the audio and became sure of a detail (usually > correctness of my call) I have kept the contact in the log. I will > NEVER process saved audio to recover a detail. I only use it as is > to review if I am not positive on correctness of my call. I would be > interested in how others view this. > _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
