[CQ-Contest] JA QSL Collecting Contest

[Tom Horton]

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 acheiver wannabee.  It may be something he is really 
dedicated to.

73, Tom K5IID




At 23:53 01/14/04, you 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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