[CQ-Contest] E mail QSLs

[Hans Brakob]

[disclaimer]

I'm a QSL junkie.  I still order paper QSL cards in 1,000 quantity packages, and my cards are based on my own photography and artwork.  Sixty-some years ago I agonized for days over my first card design from the "Little Print Shop" sample envelope.

I upload 100% of my Qs to LoTW, Clublog, and QRZ.  It's all automated via my station logger, of course, so it's not an effort to me.

I answer all incoming cards, whether direct or via the bureau.

I "originate" perhaps 10 or 15 direct QSL exchanges each month for acknowledgement of particular QSOs which were "more than run of the mill" contacts.

[/disclaimer]



Recently another "QSL method" has come on the scene, namely the "email QSL".

If you only value a QSL which fills a slot for an award, read no further — this new method will not check any award boxes.  Its' value lies only in the notion that another ham thought enough of the experience of the contact to acknowledge it.

I haven't yet joined one of the services which provide that method, so I can't "respond" in that manner, but I do always take the trouble to reply to the email with an email thank you note.  Costs me nothing, and gives a small moment of enjoyment to the fellow ham who took the trouble to acknowledge our contact.

73, de Hans, K0HB
Just a Boy and his Radio








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From: CQ-Contest <cq-contest-bounces+kzerohb=gmail.com at contesting.com> on behalf of Edward Sawyer <EdwardS at advanced-conversion.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 6, 2025 5:53 AM
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Subject: [CQ-Contest] E mail QSLs

I am starting to get a lot email QSLs after contests (probably 20 in the last few days after the ARRL DX SSB contest).

Does anyone know what the point is other than a digital equivalent of the traditional mailed QSL card?  They are not useful for any awards that I am aware of.

I stopped using the bureau last year and upload contest logs for N1UR to LOTW.

I have not been "responding" to these emails.

What do people know and what are you doing?

Ed  N1UR
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