You can’t retract any awards, and I don’t believe you even have to worry about that.
Let’s say you have 150 Confirmed on 160M right now using a combination of SSB, CW, FT8 etc. The current single band award would not change – it’s “Mixed” by default. I would envision 3 new awards to come into existence -- 160M-SSB, 160M-CW, and 160M-FT8. As I mentioned before, once you have the software written for one mode specific band award (ex: 160M-CW), then it’s a simple extension to add –SSB, -FT8, -AM, -PSK31, -Digital etc (unless you really bolloxed up the architectural stage of the software design). The ability to easily add new band/mode combinations will be essential to facilitate new modes that will be available in the future. Like I posted before, it’s not rocket science to get this done. 73 Mark K3MSB On Oct 26, 2017 12:31 PM, "Dave AA6YQ" <[email protected]> wrote: An issue that you'll have to confront in your proposal to the ARRL is the disposition of awards already granted to operators based on QSOs made in "K1JT modes". Will recent DXCC awards that included some FT8 QSOs be retracted? Will 5BDXCC awards or Challenge endorsements be retracted if they included JT65 QSOs? What about WAS and VUCC awards? For the record, none of my DXCC or Challenge award credits come from "K1JT mode" QSOs, but I am using FT8 QSOs in this year's CQ DX Marathon on 160m. 73, Dave, AA6YQ _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
