I started a new thread on this, since I am fed up with having to deal with such issues.

I have a log book now with about 200 mismatches from eQSL requests. Some are obvious busted call signs; some are SWL repoerts (dealt with elsewhere); the rest seem to be ops that either use club calls in contests, or have upgraded their calls!

real examples
- M3xxx upgrades to M0xxx (same suffix, more tham 1 QSO, and I checked QRZ.COM as well!)
- 4Z station, well known, often uses different calls in a contest; and expects me to generate a confirmation for his well known call
- Many Russian station do the same thing

The other issue to me is that Club call scenarios could often not be single op - so how do I know who is actually operating !

It is very time consuming to gave to go through the process of checking logs, and showing due diligence on such issues.

To me it is simple - you wouldnt apply for a real QSL card with a different call, so why do folk expect me to confirm eQSLs like this ? !

Whenever I reject such confirmations, folks seem surprised that I do this !

SHoudl there be some more explicit guidelines in uploading logs against your home calls; can accounts be linked together for those folk who need it (their contest call & their home call, for instance?)

73

Dave
G3NKC

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MD4K The Northern Lights

Dave,

That is exactly what I do. Send a note back saying the QSO was with that call. If they want a QSL using their own call, they should have stopped and worked you with that call (as several have done to me). Just as you would not QSL a contact with whom you did not exchange a report, neither would you do so with a station call you did not work.

Cheers

Ken
Anchorage, Alaska

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AL7GA Kenneth J Perry

You're right Ken. The QSO is with the station call, not with the operator. QSLs are for QSOs with a particular station call not an operator. If a club wants an eQSL, it should register the call with a seperate account that is administerd by an officer of the club. I do this for our club call W1BRS when we do field day.
73
Andy - n1ork

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N1ORK Orest 'Andy' Zajac

I've had paper requests with the club call and the popular call. I'll honour them, but I write on the card something like:

Thanks for the contact from your special event/club call (callsign)

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VE3OIJ P. Darin Cowan

I am a US ham operating out of Iraq under YI9MIX. My US call is N9MIX.
Is it ethical for me to include both calls within a PSK31 QSO? I am not really expecting credit for the US call sign but I think it's ok to let operators know that I am not Iraqi. So, should someone send a QSL card to my US call would that count for anything?

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YI9MIX Donald Peloquin