>
> Hello from frigid New Hampshire:
>
> Anyone who takes their DX contest QSLing seriously from the East Coast
> knows that this problem is rampant with the Europeans as well.
> In the past
> I have just QSLed every received card with my logging program
> (DXbase), but
> in the last batch of 500 cards or so I started taking the extra time to
> research whether I had already sent a card to that station for
> that band and
> mode. I would estimate that a full 40 % of the requests I
> received were for
> band/modes that I had had already issued cards for, and long
> enough ago that
> they should have received them. And yes, these are generally
> from European
> contesters, and not the casual ops. A sort of QSL spamming, I
> think !. Now
> that the cost of issuing bureau cards has gone up to about 6
> cents per card
> for me (standard YCCC card plus ARRL shipping), I'm taking more of my time
> to weed out the duplicate requests.
> Maybe I should try one of those programs that picks out new callsigns
> and pre-emptively QSLs them - except that then some DX stations would be
> getting cards THEY don't want...
>
> Stu
> KC1F
Hello Stu,
I'm using the BV7 free program for QSLing http://www.df3cb.com/bv/,
it doing exactly what You want. There are options "Confirm only new modes"
and
"Confirm only new bands" and the program automatically do not print card
even I push
to print it ;)
73!
Larry
RW4WZ
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