[Moon] QSO or not?

[David Hilton-Jones]

 Thanks Gerald - but does that mean my several QSOs with you were not
valid because you have never returned a QSL card to my three cards with
SAE and $$$?

73

David, G4YTL 

>>> <TexasRF at aol.com> 02/05/2007 15:28 >>>

As in cw, the final test of qso validity comes when QSL cards are sent.
If  a 
qso is not in the log, then a card is not sent and there is no big
discussion 
 that takes place.
 
We all have received cards for qso's that did not happen for  various 
reasons, both cw and digital. When that happens, we deal with it and no
 discussion, 
public or otherwise takes place.
 
All the bickering over this JT65 vs cw qso validity has become an
absolute  
bore and it is way past time to put all this aside.
 
Of the 500 plus users of 2m eme these days, all but a handful have
accepted  
the use and validity of JT65 on our eme bands. Perhaps this handful of 

non-believers could rethink their objections and begin making some
positive  
contributions to the discussions.
 
73,
Gerald K5GW
 
 
In a message dated 5/2/2007 7:59:04 A.M. Central Daylight Time,  
joe at Princeton.EDU writes:

Hi Jimmy  and all,

jimmyv at hol.gr wrote:
> Dear Bernd
> 
> thank  you for your reply. 
> I am glad it was a typing error, as this can  happen to anyone. 
> Now even a mistake in a cw qso, one side thinking  it was complete
and 
other side
> believing it is not, can also very  rarely happen under marginal 
conditions, even
> to experienced  operators.
> 
> Have a good travel & 73,
> Jimmy  SV1BTR

So, it seems that once again the "QSO Police" made a big  
noise over nothing ... and others made the noise louder and 
more  unpleasant by adding their own irrelevant interpretations.

Perhaps the  most revealing sentence in the brief flurry of 
emails is this  one:

DF2ZC at gmx.de wrote:
> Of course if it had been a cw QSO and  I had made this
> typing error, nobody would have written an email to  the
> reflector.

To all those who hunger for more activity on CW  EME, 
especially on 144 MHz: it might make a big difference if 
your  club seemed more friendly and welcoming to potential 
new members.   You seem to go out of your way to make it as 
unfriendly as  possible.

-- 73, Joe,  K1JT

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