QUACK's
I haven't pulled mine yet but its a pain in the ASS when I screw up the
clock at the start of a contest or something. and have to send bunches of
e-mails to guys who don't really want my card either.
If You get One from me as not confirmed. DELETE archieve or what ever. I
don't want UM I have 44K Q's uploaded , Logs prior to 1996 are not in ADIF
format and I'm not going to try to convert them.
CU ALL on 10 m in WPX CW.
Quack
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Zalewski" <w7zr@citlink.net>
To: "Sylvan Katz" <jskatz@sk.sympatico.ca>; "Ron Notarius WN3VAW"
<wn3vaw@fyi.net>; <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 00:15
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] eQSL change of policy
> RO
>
> I just pulled all of my logs from eqsl and will not answer cards through
> that service anymore. It's a shame.
>
> Dick W7ZR
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sylvan Katz" <jskatz@sk.sympatico.ca>
> To: "Ron Notarius WN3VAW" <wn3vaw@fyi.net>; <cq-contest@contesting.com>
> Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 3:04 PM
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] eQSL change of policy
>
>
> > > If you don't log a QSO and forget to fill out or send a card, and have
> no
> > > way of following up on it later because of a lack of a log entry
> (mobile,
> > > portable or otherwise) who's fault is this and why is this blame now
> being
> > > assigned to LotW which is still a work in progress?
> >
> > There is an implicit assumption in the above statement that may not be
> quite
> > accurate. It appears to assume that both sides of a qso care about
awards
> > and QSLs. I, for example, don't really care about awards and qsl cards.
On
> > the other hand, I sure want to help those who do by confirming their qso
> > with me. I don't send QSL cards by mail --- a bit too expensive for my
> > simple life -- however, eQSLs are ideal. Although, I must admit I have
> never
> > initiated an eQSL but I have responded to hundreds of them.
> >
> > By law I do not have to keep a general log. In practice I don't keep a
> > general log. I do keep contest logs. After, they are scored, they are
> > compressed, archived and put on a shelf. Too be quite honest I do not
have
> > the time to search through contest logs, and some months I may have 4
> > contests logs, to confirm each QSL or eQSL that comes to my mail and
> > e-mail.boxes.
> >
> > I rely on the honor system - if a fellow amateur wants an eQSL card from
> me
> > then all he has to do is send me an eQSL. I will assume he values our
qso
> > and that he is honorable enough to provide me with accurate information
> > about our qso in his eQSL . And until the recent change of policy at
> eQSL.cc
> > I use to "eQSL 100 percent" but it seems they are forcing me to change
my
> > words to "I never QSL". What a pity.
> >
> > As others have pointed out, QSLing "is fundamentally an honor system
and
> we
> > should be striving for ways to implement that honor system as painlessly
> as
> > possible."
> >
> > .. sylvan
> >
> > Ô¿Ô¬
> > ----------------
> > Sylvan Katz, VE5ZX
> > Saskatoon, SK
> > "A Novel Perspective of Amateur Radio Contesting" at
> > http://www.dynamicforesight.com/~ve5zx
> >
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