[Elecraft] QSLs

[Jim Brown]

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