(Araucaria) CQ aceitará confirmações de contatos via eQSL para validação de awards . ....

[PT7ZZ, Andre Coelho]

Bem,

Relutei bastante para entrar no LoTW, mas acabei entrando, e, inclusive no
site QRZ.com, informo não aceitar eQSL .... e agora ???

Acredito ser uma forma da CQ tentar entrar na era digital dos QSLs ... mas
porque não aproveitar o LoTW, fazendo um joint venture com a ARRL ?

Fazendo um check no eQsl, tenho varios contatos por lá, creditados por
estações trabalhadas ...

Alguém aqui usa ??? Qual a credibilidade ???

mudanças a caminho ..... leiam abaixo:


CQ Communications, Inc. / 25 Newbridge Rd. / Hicksville, NY 11801 /

Phone: (516) 681-2922 / Fax: (516-681-2926) /
e-mail:w2vu em cq-amateur-radio.com <e-mail%3Aw2vu em cq-amateur-radio.com>

NEWS RELEASE

For more information, contact:
Richard Moseson, W2VU
Editor, CQ Amateur Radio
(516) 681-2922 / w2vu em cq-amateur-radio.com

Dave Morris, N5UP
Founder and Webmaster, eQSL.cc
N5UP em eqsl.cc

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."

      "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'."

      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 <http://www.eqsl.cc/>

For more information on CQ awards, visit the awards page on the CQ website
at 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.


-- 
73 de PT7ZZ, Andre

Andre Luiz Coelho Santos .' .
ForDX - Fortaleza DX Group
http://www.fordx.org
ZY7C Contest Station, Team Member
http://www.zy7c.org.br/
ARRL, NCDXF, INDEXA, LABRE Member
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