[CQ-Contest] E mail QSLs

[robert beaudoin]

     Good Evening Hans

             Well I wouldn't be so quick to say "every time something 
new comes

         along ' things get better...... I will hold my  tung now.

                         73 BoB WA1FCN

On 3/14/2025 10:57 AM, Hans Brakob wrote:
> There’s always something for the IOoDHW* to clutch their pearls about.  60-some years ago when I was a newby KG6AQI they complained about newfangled SSB.  Today it’s about some newfangled QSL method.
>
> As far as I’m concerned, ham radio gets better every time something new comes along.
>
> 73, de Hans, KØHB
> “Just a Boy and his Radio”™
>
> *IOoDHW = International Order of Dismayed Hand Wringers
>
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> ________________________________
> From: CQ-Contest <cq-contest-bounces+kzerohb=gmail.com at contesting.com> on behalf of Mike Smith VE9AA <ve9aa at nbnet.nb.ca>
> Sent: Saturday, March 8, 2025 12:16:26 PM
> To: cq-contest at contesting.com <cq-contest at contesting.com>
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] E mail QSLs
>
> For the past while I seem to get about one a week.  This morning (Saturday)
> I actually got 4 overnight-and 2 were from the same guy/gal - what the
> heck?!
>
>
>
> A vy small PITA to "deal with" but a small PITA nonetheless.
>
>
>
> My opinion is that they are nothing at all remotely like getting a paper QSL
> card from when we were young and newly licensed (for most reading this),
> decades ago.  Those cards took time/effort to fill
> out/envelope/stamp/money/travel to a post office in most cases, to get in
> the postal mail system.
>
>
>
> These all seem to be auto-generated by some kind of bot service after (I'm
> presuming) uploading your .adif or Cabrillo file somewhere.  There is no
> hint of a personal element remaining in this latest round of QSL <ahem>
> "exchanging".
>
>
>
> My prediction is that in 25yrs there won't be any more human element
> remaining in ham radio or contesting beyond insuring electricity is going to
> the shack (but even that'll be automated).(Will we even have shacks?)
>
>
>
>    We'll just check some flatscreen on our refrigerator door (or in our
> bathroom mirror) in the morning to see how we placed in the contest and how
> many people QSL'd back (by email or searchable webpage) ~1 second after
> 23:59:59Z Sunday night.
>
>
>
> Sad.
>
>
>
> Mike VE9AA "NB"
>
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>
>
> Thanks for those that suggested unsubscribing.  I love that you have to
>
> "unsubscribe" from something you never "subscribed" to in the first place.
> It
>
> will be interesting to see how much of this is "bot" activity rather than
> real
>
> people sending the equivalent of old fashion confirming of a meaningful QSO.
>
>
>
> Ed N1UR
>
>
>
> Mike - Keswick Ridge, NB, Canada
>
>
>
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