[South Florida DX Association] CQ magazine

[Tom Lewis]

FYI Guys..
Seems CQ magazine has elected to publish their full logs including all 
QSO details for anyone to see. Anyone expecting to claim credit for a 
new DXCC using these logs may be disappointed.
How it will impact LOTW will be big question.

Not a good move..

Read for yourself and see:

PUBLISHING LOGS AND LOSING DXCC CREDIT...
The magazine "CQ" published all logs of the last CQWW DX Contests at:
http://www.cqww.com/cwlogs.htm and http://www.cqww.com/ssblogs.htm
In the future DXers have to be aware that it is possible to lose DXCC
credit for QSOs made during those contests. Rule 5 in section III of
the DXCC rules writes that publishing logs "...creates a question as to
the integrity of the claimed QSOs ... and may be considered sufficient
reason to deny ARRL award credit for contacts with any station for
which such presentations have been made." Falk,DK7YY, who is a field-
checker of the ARRL sent a query to the DXCC Desk and the DXCC manager
Bill Moore,NC1L, answered that he cannot make any statement questioning
this rule. With other words: If a DXpedition submits its CQWW log, it
can be assumed that its DXCC approval is denied as well. Country and
band chasers will cease their contest participation and may focus on
chasing the DX before and after the contest weekends!

This was excerpted from the DXNL from DL7VOA


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Tom, N4T