[CQ-Contest] JA QSL Collecting Contest

[Haddon/N6ZFO]

Regarding the JA QSL cards:

During many years in the laboratory we had many visitors 
from Japan.  Every Japanese visitor offered, usually with 
ceremony, his or her business card. It was done even in the 
days when it was not so customary among US scientists to 
exchange cards.

So my take is a little different.  I don't think we are 
necessarily expected to respond to every card, but it might 
offensive to refuse or discourage the customary sending of 
the QSL's, just as declining a business card from a Japanese 
visitor might be considered in poor taste. In a sense, the 
JA's, or at least a tiny bit of their RF energy, visits our 
shacks for a few moments during our QSO's.

I also compliment the JA's in the design of their often 
distinctively beautiful QSL cards.  Several of the JA cards 
which I received as a novice in the 50's were on my wall for 
years because of their strikingly beautiful designs.


73 Bill n6zfo

n6ki at 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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