![]() Edward Tilton W1HDQ in the “The World Above 50 Mc” column, QST Magazine, March 1957 wrote this:Īs amateurs we are presumed to be engaged in communication. The question of what constitutes a valid radio contact has been asked for decades. Did he hear my callsign correctly? Was he even talking to me? Not sure. I hear a DX station calling CQ…I call him (giving his callsign and my callsign) and I hear him say “your report is 5 and 9” so I say “QSL and 73” and put him in the log. ![]() Most of the time we clearly know whether we had a valid radio contact, commonly referred to as a QSO. We call another station or another station responds to our call, we exchange some information, maybe chat for a while and then finish the contact, clearing out with our callsigns. Ham operators make radio contacts on a routine basis.
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