[CQ-Contest] Signing/verifying QSLs

[ke9r at ke9r.com]

I love getting card after card. Those of you who just throw them into
a big pile, sometimes the trash pile, don't really understand what this
is about. I'm however very particular about my cards and really adore
them. I also like getting cards from identical stations year after year.
A lot of them vary their cards every season, as do I, and we happily
exchange our art and our time vested into these little things.

I pour over my cards and often am rewarded by little interesting things
that most people don't find. For example, heres one that I pulled off
the top of my head just now. Yes, the two cards are for different bands,
but if it wasn't I'd be just as amused and happy.

	http://ke9r.com/qsl/df0hq/
	(occasionally the server is a bit slow)

Ken, some of us entirely appreciate you "blanket QSL'ing", and are more
than willing to pay that little bit it costs to get your card to us
through the buro.

To each his own. It's fine you won't QSL me via buro Bruce and it's fine
that Ken will.

73 Greg/KE9R

( How things diverge on cq-contest, I'm sorry for adding to the mess )

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On Sun, 10 Aug 2003, Jim Rhodes wrote:

> Ken, if I had worked you I would be glad to get such a card. Remind me to
> never send a card Bruce.
>
> At 11:27 AM 8/10/03, Bruce Sawyer wrote:
> > >I am blanket QSLing VY2TT QSOs. (I have clearly printed "NO REPLY QSL
> >NEEDED" on each card, so...."
> >
> >But each person who did the favor of giving VY2TT a QSO during contests will
> >now be penalized by having to pay the postage to receive a QSL card he
> >likely neither needs nor wants.  And then comes the time penalty of
> >searching for that "NO REPLY NEEDED" notice which often is so difficult to
> >find.  I'm sure this saves Ken time, because now he doesn't have to process
> >any incoming cards.  But he saved his time by shifting the burden over to
> >everybody else who helped him during the contest.
> >
> >It is this practice, multiplied by hundreds of contesters, which led me long
> >ago to swear off bureau cards.  I don't even send the bureau money to
> >forward them to me, and trust they put them right where they belong:  in the
> >trash.  Fortunately, I do have a QSL manager for my ZF operations who is
> >willing to sort through the stacks of bureau cards like Ken's and try to
> >find the ones which do request a response, then answer them.  For the life
> >of me, though, I can't understand where he finds the patience to do that.
> >But I'm glad he does, because I'm certain there are some people who do need
> >confirmation on ZF and for whom postage for direct QSLs could be a hardship.
> >His job would be a lot easier, though, if so many contesters (many of whom
> >are on this reflector) didn't follow Ken's lead in this and shift the cost
> >and time burden off to the people who gave them points during contests.
> >
> >Bruce, N6NT
> >
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