[600MRG] Starting at 19:37 UTC - late afternoon

[Rik Strobbe]

Indeed, acknowledgement is needed.
Because all information should be exchanged over radio on the same frequency(band), during the QSO there should be no other means of information exchange (Not via intenet, nor via contact on an other band).
So without acknowledgement  you just cannot know the other station copied you.

Based on the rule "If 2 stations receive each other, it is a QSO", I (and many others) would have made hundreds of QSO's on WSPR without even knowing.

To put it to an exteme: I copy a station on WSPR and that same station copies me 2 weeks later.
I cannot imagine that this would count as a valid QSO? 

73, Rik  ON7YD - OR7T
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Van: 600mrg-bounces at mailman.qth.net <600mrg-bounces at mailman.qth.net> namens Bill Cromwell <wrcromwell at gmail.com>
Verzonden: donderdag 10 januari 2019 22:42
Aan: 600mrg at mailman.qth.net
Onderwerp: Re: [600MRG] Starting at 19:37 UTC - late afternoon

Hi,

I thought they had to acknowledge one another too.

73,

Bill  KU8H

On 1/10/19 4:35 PM, jrusgrove at comcast.net wrote:
> Andy
>
>> If 2 stations receive each other, it is a QSO.
>
> Are you saying that only two(!) transmissions now constitute a
> legitamite QSO? If so, someone should
> inform K1JT of this so he can shorten his sequences ;~).
>
> Jay W1VD

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