Radio hams risking DXCC disqualification

ARRL Membership Services Manager Wayne Mills, N7NG, has some words for DXers. Do not put all of your log information on-line as it can lead to DXCC disqualification.
Amateur Radio Newsline's Bruce Tennant, K6PZW, reports:

According to the Ohio Penn DX Newsletter, in an August 11th release, the ARRL's Wayne Mills says that for a number of years, it has been accepted practice to post DXpedition QSO information on a website.

Although this information is generally limited to callsign, band and mode, it has been useful in reducing the number of duplicate contacts in the DXpedition log.

On the other hand, Mills says that publishing complete QSO information, or information from which full QSO information can be derived, threatens the integrity of the QSLing process. As such, Mills says that it is unacceptable.

To help minimize potential difficulties, Mills says that a new
restriction has been approved by the Programs and Services Committee, and added to the DXCC Accreditation Criteria. Section III now additionally reads -- and we quote:.

"The presentation in any public forum of logs or other representations of station operation showing details of station activity or other information from which all essential QSO elements such as time, date, band, mode and callsign for individual contacts can be derived creates a question as to the integrity of the claimed QSOs with that station during the period encompassed by the log.

Presentation of such information in any public forum by the station operator, operators or associated parties is not allowed and may be considered sufficient reason to deny ARRL award credit for contacts with any station for which such presentations have been made. Persistent violation of this provision may result in disqualification from the DXCC program."

Loosely translated. If you put up to much of your logging information where the public can see it, you can loose an operations credit for DXCC.

Bruce Tennant, K6PZW
Amateur Radio Newsline

The bottom line:
According to Mills, there has to be some information that the station claiming the QSO provides based solely on actually being there when the QSO was made.

Source: Amateur Radio Newsline, OPDX

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