Re: Questionable practice..?

No, the same cannot be said for eQSLs; it's an entirely different thing. To get an eQSL, the listener has to be sitting at the radio listening, write an ereport, and press Send. Pretty much the same as sending a report thru the mail. eQSLs are as valid as snail-mail QSLs in my book. Just faster. I have no problem with that.

My point is that "SDR catches" do not require any human intervention; the SDR does all the work. To ask for a QSL (of any sort) for these catches seems to be cheating, at least to me - the listener was asleep, or at work, or whatever, and did NOT actually hear the broadcast. How can someone who did NOT hear the broadcast feel good about receiving a QSL for it?

BTW, I have nothing against SDRs, either; they certainly have their place. The old WinRadio I have seems to have great ears, even compared to my R-75. It's the very late reports that seem useless, and acquiring QSLs for those non-receptions that bothers me.

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