[SOC] Is EQSL purposely trying to upset their user base?

[bill K7WXW]

I love chasing personal goals (SOTA QRP CW WAS) and exchanging QSL 
cards. I upload my QSOs to LOTW and eQSL for the folks that need them. 
But I've never had much use for sponsored awards.

That said, I am still pursuing the coveted SOC SOTA QRP CW AAS - Second 
Class Operators Summits on the Air QRP CW AGN? All States.

72 Bill K7WXW


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Quikhooligan via SOC wrote on 10/21/23 8:58 AM:
> On 10/21/2023 09:01, F5PBL - Claude wrote:
>
>> Quoting rule 10a (eWAS Award): "The Award Master for this award may
>> determine at his sole discretion whether the eQSLs received are
>> adequately matched by OUTGOING eQSLs sent by the applicant to confirm
>> the credits applied for. A large number of unconfirmed eQSLs is against
>> the spirit of the eQSL system and should be fixed by uploading your
>> entire log, or by carefully confirming each valid incoming eQSL and
>> rejecting each eQSL that does not match your log!"
>>
>> In the past, it was possible to get credits (via received eQSL) for QSOs
>> which were not in your log (outgoing eQSLs).
>> I have been in that case (QSO not in my log for whatever reason but
>> received eQSL from the other station nevertheless).
>> So, my understanding of this new rule is: you will get credit for QSOs
>> if and only if the said QSO is in both logs (yours and the other
>> station's).
>> If the QSO is already in your log and you have already sent an eQSL for
>> it, then credit is granted as soon as you have received the other
>> station's eQSL.
>>
>> You may want to contact the award manager (JI3KDH or VA3KAB as
>> alternate) for your particular situation which looks a bit weird if you
>> have indeed lost some credits for already confirmed contacts.
> All I know is that I have been religiously confirming any incoming QSOs
> that were in my log and rejecting any that weren't in my log.  Doing it
> that way, over all these years, I had 46 credits toward the 50 needed.
> Now the web site shows all those credits greyed out and tells me to
> reconfirm due to rule 10a.
>
> Perhaps they are greyed out because without a current paid membership I
> am not eligible to apply for the award?  In which case the web site is
> misleading me to reconfirm unnecessarily. Dumb web site thinks all
> greyed out contacts need to be confirmed due to rule 10a.
>
> I'll still take the effort to confirm my valid QSOs like I always have,
> but I'm giving up on worrying if the eQSLs have any validity for myself
> or the other guy.
>
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