[RTTY] QSL survey

[Joe Subich, W4TV]

> 1. Do you use the Logbook of the World (LOTW)?
> If not, what has kept you from using it?
> 
YES - my preferred method.

> 2. Do you use the eQSL service?
> If not, what has kept you from using it?
 
No - after more than a half dozen requests for "confirmations" 
by a certain middle-eastern station for QSOs for which I had 
cards in hand and, in some cases, LotW confirmations that were 
made with other stations in his country and the outright refusal 
of eQSL to ban him from their system, I will not participate in 
a system that refuses to exclude those who practice fraud as it 
taints all "confirmations."  

> 3. Do you use the QSL Bureau system?
> If not, what has kept you from using it?
 
Only if someone sends something that way.  The cost for outbound 
cards is excessive compared to bundling cards for the common 
bureaus and sending them in bundles. 

> 4. Do you send out direct QSLs?
> If not, what has kept you from doing so?

YES - for "new ones" if there is no online QSL option. 

> 5. What is the approximate percentages of your QSLs received via:
> LOTW     - 70% +/- of confirmations 
> eQSL     -  0% given their lack of security I won't use them. 
> Bureau   -  5% +/- of confirmations
> Direct   - 25% +/- of confirmations 

73, 

   ... Joe, W4TV