From: "Mike Dennison" <mike.dennison@rsgb.org.uk>
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Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 11:01:06 -0000
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Subject: LF: LDO > ZJ > ZZ a two-way?
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I have been giving some thought to whether I personally regard the 
recent G3LDO/VE1ZJ/VE1ZZ QSO to be a two-way.

My initial reaction was to say that because there was a relay station 
that did more than just relay - he decoded the spectrogram - this did 
not constitute a two-way with remote receive.

I still think it was not a two-way between VE1ZZ and G3LDO, but was 
it a two-way transatlantic QSO? There was no 'assistance' on either 
of the transatlantic paths, only when it reached VE, and the required 
callsigns and previously unknown information (report) crossed the 
Atlantic in both directions, and ended up with the same two stations. 
I think Peter, John and Jack can claim the first two-way, though 
they have not yet.

This looks like it might be an interesting question for the Bobek 
Trophy adjudicators in RSGB (not me), DARC and AMRAD.

Mike, G3XDV (IO91VT)
http://www.lf.thersgb.net