This is a copy of a letter I recently sent to ARRL Dear Sir or Madam, This is a matter that concerns me and many other radio amateurs who QSL religiously and receive many JA QSL cards from contests.
Why did you send your jeremiad to ARRL? While I enjoy getting QSL cards (the more the merrier), I can see it might be a bother to some. However, in this case ARRL has nothing to do with it. You shoul
Dennis, It does get to be a pain...but what is frivilous to us may not be to them. A lot of folks think I do frivilous stuff in trying to work all counties...several times. It's in the eye of the ach
Just ignore them if you don't want to spend time for that. That's it. Tets, AH7C -- The world's top contesters battle it out in Finland! THE OFFICIAL FILM of WRTC 2002 now on professional DVD and VHS
Hi Tanaka, I would love to ignore them but I would also like to reward other JA stations with QSL cards that are not playing this frivolous game and deserve them for their effort and expense of getti
Frivilous is in the ye of the beholder. Many would call contesting frivilous. Personally, I QSL 100% received for each band/mode contact ONCE. Interestingly, I received a buro shipment last month and
Per all your comments. It's very time consuming to have to verify 500 or more cards several times a year. I can't very well ignore them if I don't know it's a duplicate card. Yes, I know about sendin
Regarding the JA QSL cards: During many years in the laboratory we had many visitors from Japan. Every Japanese visitor offered, usually with ceremony, his or her business card. It was done even in t
That's how I do it. I QSL every card 100%. Many ops contact us in contests specifically for the card. I can't possibly ignore that basic fact, no matter what the work load. At ~20,000 QSOs per year,
Hi, I'm one of the JAs who send outgoing QSLs for every (contest or not) QSO. I'm not doing awards but I simply enjoy looking at ethnic QSLs sent to me via JARL every other months. My thinking is if
Well, when they start having a business card collecting contest I'll opt out of that one too!!! 73, Dennis N6KI On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 00:53:12 -0800 Haddon/N6ZFO <hounds1234@comcast.net> writes: ______
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 e
For over 40 years I have answered every valid QSL card I have received. For what it's worth, I intend to continue to honor all valid requests. If that becomes too burdensome for some others, perhaps
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
Geez ...what an option!! Why didn't I think of that!!! Think I'll switch to knitting because I don't like getting spammed with frivolous QSL cards 73, Dennis N6KI On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 02:34:40 -00 "K0
Hello, In our club station we used to work in many RTTY contest. During the contest you very often work the same stations. However if we receive a QSL for a contest QSO we are always sending our QSL