[CQ-Contest] If You Don't QSL, LISTEN UP!

[Pete Smith]

At 05:45 PM 8/4/03 -0400, Nat Heatwole wrote:
>If Hiram Percy Maxim was alive today, I can only imagine what he would
>have to say about people that religiously don't QSL. But regardless of
>what the OM would say, here's what I have to say: if you don't QSL, your
>hurting both yourself and contesting; you're killing your rate and
>you're slowing down mine simultaneously.


I couldn't agree more, but I'd hesitate to take one guy's note as 
indicative of a general problem.  Most contesters I know WILL reply to an 
SASE, or even to a QSL from a US station sent direct without one.  I 
operate SS every year, which generates a lot of cards, and I always QSL, 
though not always right away.  Logbook of the World is another part of the 
solution to this problem; I wonder when it will go operational.


73, Pete N4ZR
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