For one, I stopped using eQSL when I found out they were storing passwords
in clear text. They are a security nightmare.
Their user interface is also a nightmare especially with multiple
locations. LoTW is much better in that regard.
Ria
N2RJ
On Fri, Mar 7, 2025 at 3:51 PM Uwe Granzow <dl3bqa@necg.de> wrote:
> Hi Charles,
>
>
>
> it‘s your opinion, but to get such a lot of mail with useless
> confirmations for QSOs long time ago and for expeditions is useless for me.
> As someone can send his whole adif to QSL-World and create confirmation for
> every QSO that would mean if I upload my RTTY-adif I would send out nearly
> 50000 mails. Or if I’d use all my contest adifs as DM0Y or other calls
> another 100000 mails or so will go out. That’s spam, nothing else. Can’t
> find any entertainment value.
>
> Whats the point for using QSL-World instead of using eqsl.cc?? Can’t find
> one.
>
>
>
> 73s de Uwe DL3BQA/DM0Y
>
> Von: Charles Tropp [mailto:charlestropp@gmail.com]
> Gesendet: Freitag, 7. März 2025 14:16
> An: Uwe Granzow <dl3bqa@necg.de>
> Cc: cq-contest@contesting.com
> Betreff: Re: [CQ-Contest] E-Mail QSLs
>
>
>
> It's true they are not valid for any awards, yet they do have some
> entertainment value and it's nice to receive a confirmation in any case. I
> use QSL World which is free and very easy to use. You simply create an ADIF
> of the contact and download. A map opens, scroll to the QSO and voila!
>
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 6, 2025 at 7:35 PM Uwe Granzow <dl3bqa@necg.de <mailto:
> dl3bqa@necg.de> > wrote:
>
> Got al lot of those "QSLs" via a service named "QSL-World" within the last
> weeks for some of my calls/expeditions and QSOs several years ago. For
> this
> service you can unsubscribe and it stopped. There's another service called
> "QSL-creator" from where I got also some QSLs via mail, but there I can not
> found out how to unsubcribe. I do not respond to any of those mail-QSLs. As
> I use eqsl + bureau I can't see the point of using these services too.
>
> 73 de Uwe DL3BQA/DM0Y
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> I am starting to get a lot email QSLs after contests (probably 20 in the
> last few days after the ARRL DX SSB contest).
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> Does anyone know what the point is other than a digital equivalent of the
> traditional mailed QSL card? They are not useful for any awards that I am
> aware of.
>
> I stopped using the bureau last year and upload contest logs for N1UR to
> LOTW.
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> I have not been "responding" to these emails.
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> What do people know and what are you doing?
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