The CQ Magazine DX Marathon judge seems to have some superb smarts as to what validates a plausible contact. I know for sure he caught it when due to a typo of mine, I busted a callsign from a perfectly common entity (G = England) on my 80M DX Marathon application and he even knew the correct callsign that I had worked.
In addition I strongly suspect that for top-of-category in DX Marathon that he does further cross-checks especially when public logs are available for search (the case for most DXpeditions but not the case for random hams). I suspect he has some automation to help him with these checks but he's a super smart guy who is very familiar with both common and rare callsigns from all over the world. In fact the DX Marathon website lists some "commonly busted callsigns" and "known pirate callsigns" with specific dates and times and this is updated throughout the year - an immensely valuable resource for any DX'er. I don't think it's reasonable to expect DXCC Card Checkers to apply this level of experience, smarts, cross-checks, or scrutiny to cards they are checking. It requires experience and access to diverse resources (many online that I know about but undoubtedly some offline and maybe paper especially for anything more than a couple years old). It would be nice if someone from HQ could help out with the scrutiny. Tim N3QE On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 12:44 PM Richard (Rick) Karlquist < [email protected]> wrote: > > I attained 160 meter DXCC around 5 years ago. > I don't feel that it qualifies me to check > QSL's. Even though I did it from the west > coast :-) I can see where say 25 years ago, > 160 meter DXCC really meant something. Now > that we have entered the FT8 era, digital > DXCC has become far easier, and falls into the > category of "that and $5 will get you a latte" > as the saying goes. > > Clearly, it is time to retire this anachronism. > > Rick N6RK > > _________________ > Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband > Reflector > _________________ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
