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 sending the JA cards direct...that's the least of the
problem.
73, Dennis N6KI
On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 12:06:43 -0000 "Barry " <w2up@mindspring.com> writes:
> 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 there were less JAs than usual. Look at the bright side - if you
>
> get a lot of JA cards, you can save money sending them direxctly to
> the JA buro yourself, rather than thru ARRL (for me it's usually DL
> and JA buros I sent to directly). For example 1 lb. to JA costs
> $4.05
> direct vs. $8 via ARRL and 2 lbs costs $6.65 direct vs. $16 via
> ARRL.
> Barry W2UP
>
> On 14 Jan 2004 n6ki@juno.com wrote:
>
> > 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.
> >
> > I had heard rumor that MANY Japanese amateurs were involved in
> > obtaining as many non JA QSL cards from hams all over the world
> for
> > some sort of contest. It gets to be very annoying, expensive and
> time
> > consuming to send QSL cards to the same guy many times over for
> same
> > BAND/MODE contacts!!!
> >
> > Here is what is written on a QSL card recently received from
> JA2OLJ
> >
> > ....."Please send me your QSL Card for the Award that is the
> greatest
> > One in Japan named Sekai 10,000 KYOKU YOMIURI AWARD. The Award
> needs
> > 10,000 cards or more from many DX stations without JA"
> >
> > At this point I am inclined to ignore all JA cards that do not
> arrive
> > with S.A.S.E., IRCs or Green Stamps
> >
> > I see no inherent value for anyone other than the JA stations
> > collecting QSL cards for a frivolous award.
> >
> > 73, Dennis Vernacchia N6KI
> > San Diego
> >
> > P.S. - I see on his card that this card to me was #48,183....I am
> sure
> > the QSL printers are the only ones that are happy and benefiting
> from
> > this
> >
> >
> >
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