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CQ Announces eQSL Electronic Confirmation Acceptance
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 in January.
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 atreduced cost for both the applicant and the award manager."
Specific Requirements and Procedures 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 or 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 USACounties
Award (USACA), 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>.
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