K3LOE Mike

I have a QSL confirmation request from a station that never stopped sending a signal report after I replied RR73. I did not log it since the other station didn't receive confirmation from me that I'd gotten their signal report.

So I was surprised to get the confirmation request. I can just email them and get the details to plug in on my side since I remember the exchange, but is there a standard protocol for this?

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May 29 at 11:05pmWeb
Show threadAlex KR1ST/PA1STMay 30
@K3LOE I realize that many hams require the exchange of a 73 in both directions, but it really is the acknowledgement of the signal report that makes the contact valid on FT8. That is a practice adopted from weak signal operations. The other station must have sent R+signal report for your side to be sending RR73. When you sent RR73 WSJT-X most likely asked you to log the QSO, as it was a valid contact as far as WJT-X is concerned. That's how I would treat this situation.
Show threadK3LOE MikeMay 30

@kr1st I may have cancelled the WSJTX log prompt because I saw they were repeating the R+signal report and assumed they never got my RR73. That is, from their perspective, I never got their R+signal report.

Maybe there was just a glitch in their auto sequencing and we did complete the exchange...OR they just assumed I received their report despite not getting an RR73!

I'll email the station to get missing data.

Show threadCome On Giant Asteroid!May 30

@K3LOE

The standard really should be "SRI OM NIL".

Show threadMarcMay 30
@K3LOE Rather than emailing for the details, you could search for the contact in your WSJTX or JTDX log file.
Show threadK3LOE MikeMay 30
@deacongeek I didn't log it in wsjtx
Show threadMarcMay 30
@K3LOE Ah, but it will still have been logged in the WSJTX logs - not the contact log but in the operational logs. I can’t recall the file you’d be looking for off the top of my head, but if you open the log directory, you can find it. It records each message received and sent.
Show threadK3LOE MikeMay 30
@kr1st @deacongeek Oh snap, I did not know that was all being logged. And there's the exchange with the data I need, thanks to you both!
Show threadMarcMay 30
@K3LOE @kr1st You are quite welcome. I’ve dug through the logs on more than one occasion myself.