[CQ-Contest] JA QSL Collecting Contest

[n6ki at juno.com]

Well,  when they start having a business card collecting contest
I'll opt out of that one too!!!

73, Dennis N6KI



On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 00:53:12 -0800 Haddon/N6ZFO <hounds1234 at comcast.net>
writes:
> 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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