[OKDXA] WAZ and eQSL

[Gene Lewis]

This may interest some of you:

> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:  January 13, 2009
> 
> CQ to Accept eQSL Confirmations for Award  Credit
> (Hicksville, NY and Bedford, TX, January 13, 2009) - CQ magazine  will 
> accept contact confirmations made on the eQSL.cc electronic  confirmation 
> system 
> for its operating awards effective immediately, CQ  Editor Rich Moseson, 
> W2VU, 
> and eQSL Founder and Webmaster Dave Morris,  N5UP, announced today.
> 
> There will be certain limitations and procedural  differences for different 
> awards, at least to start. Only confirmations  from "Authenticity Guaranteed" 
> members of eQSL will be accepted, and in  accordance with existing eQSL 
> policy, a 
> membership level of bronze or  higher is required in order to participate in 
> award programs via  eQSL.
> 
> "This is the first time that CQ has formally accepted anything  other than 
> traditional paper QSL cards for its awards," said Moseson. "We  have been 
> working 
> with Dave Morris and his team for several months to  assure that the 
> integrity of 
> our awards programs will be protected and to  create mechanisms to make it 
> easy 
> for both award applicants and award  managers to use eQSL credits toward our 
> awards. All of our award managers  have been involved in this process and 
> support 
> this action."
> 
> "We  want to express our great appreciation to Dave and his team for their  
> willingness to do whatever was necessary to make this agreement possible,"  
> Moseson added. "It has been a pleasure working with them and we look  forward 
> to 
> a long-lasting relationship.a
> 
> "We are pleased to be  adding CQ to the top of our list of amateur 
> organizations that accept  electronic QSLs," said Morris. "CQ has some of the 
> most highly  sought-after awards, and we have been working behind the scenes 
> for 
> years  to create credit submission mechanisms that would ensure the integrity 
> of  
> their programs without introducing any additional labor for the award  
> managers. 
> We believe the electronic QSL can drastically reduce costs, and  the award 
> application mechanisms we have developed will provide for more  efficient 
> processing at reduced cost for both the applicant and the award  manager."
> 
> Applicants for the CQ DX and CQ DX Field Awards must print  out their eQSLs 
> and submit them along with their traditional QSLs to a CQ  checkpoint or to 
> CQ DX 
> Awards Manager Billy Williams, N4UF. eQSL has an  automated process in place 
> for 
> applicants for CQ's Worked All Zones, WPX  and USA-Counties awards. N5UP 
> explains 
> how that will work for the  applicant:
> 
> "The applicant goes to the My Awards screen. He clicks on  the particular 
> award he wants to apply for. This brings up a list of the  credits our system 
> 'thinks' he is entitled to. There are checkboxes that  allow him to check 
> which 
> ones he wants to use, and we automatically  pre-fill one credit per category 
> so 
> he doesn't have to do anything if he  wants to take the defaults. At the 
> bottom 
> of the screen are two buttons:  'Submit to CQ' and 'Print Paper Application'of
> 
> The "submit" button  will place all the selected QSOs into a file for the 
> award manager to  access, while the "print" button will generate a printed 
> list 
> to be  submitted along with the traditional application. PLEASE NOTE that ALL 
> 
> applicants must send the award fee payment to the CQ Award Manager,  
> regardless 
> of how the application is submitted. Some CQ award managers are  now 
> accepting 
> PayPal; see individual award web pages for details. All  awards will continue 
> to 
> accept traditional QSLs as well as eQSLs. For the  USA-Counties Award 
> (USA-CA), 
> applicants must note on their record books  (or printouts) whether each 
> county 
> has been confirmed traditionally (with  an "X" to the right of the entry) or 
> electronically (with an "E" next to  the entry).
> 
> For more information on eQSL, visit >http://www.eQSL.cc    
> 
> 
> For more  information on CQ awards, visit the awards page on the CQ website 
> at 
> http://www.cq-http://www.cq-amateur-radio.com
> Please note that the award rules posted on the 
> website have not yet been  updated to reflect the acceptance of eQSLs. This 
> will 
> be done as soon as  possible, but the policy takes effect immediately.

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