[UK-CONTEST] Short Contest Calls Buro QSLCards

[Cooper, Stewart]

I realised as soon as I posted my message that I should have said that there
are always envelopes there. The immediacy of e-mail does not really ease
communication! Our QSL manager is also listed on QRZ.com.
It's the fact that QSLs exist at all that gets me!
73
Stewart

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Farmer [mailto:G3VAO at hortonbrook.freeserve.co.uk]
Sent: 24 August 2003 14:39
To: Cooper, Stewart
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] Short Contest Calls Buro QSLCards


Perhaps your QSL manager should sent envelopes (or something) to the QSL
Buro Manager - not everyone in the world including a good number of SWLs
will be aware of you manager!!

73 de Mike

----- Original Message -----
From: "Cooper, Stewart" <coopers at odl.co.uk>
To: <uk-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2003 2:11 PM
Subject: RE: [UK-CONTEST] Short Contest Calls Buro QSLCards


I send this to the list, rather than directly, quite deliberately. Any QSLs
for GM0F should go to our QSL manager Linda M0CMK. Thanks John, if you pass
that info on.
Personally, I am always very vocal when it comes to QSLs - I hate them.
However, I ensure that all requests for cards are acted upon, in spite of
the huge cost and the waste of paper! I think the whole QSL idea must have
been dreamt up by a printer. (That should start a thread-and-a-half).
73
Stewart
GM4AFF/GM0F

-----Original Message-----
From: John Dunnington
To: uk-contest at contesting.com
Sent: 22/08/03 20:00
Subject: [UK-CONTEST] Short Contest Calls Buro QSLCards


I have had a request if as a contester I would make a plea to all owners
of
contest calls to either:

(a) Confirm you are interested in the cards and if so send a cheque to
cover
postage and packing. £25.00 will cover
    the best part of a year operating with say 5-or-6 shipments.

(b) If not interested in receiving QSL's please drop the guy a line and
tell
him that way you save time and money
    that the RSGB could spend in other directions. Plus empty the poor
guy's
lounge of useless scrap paper.

(c) If you are up to date and collecting cards no need to respond thank
you..

I understand some call holders have hundreds of QSL's which will be
binned
very shortly. If you want send me an Email saying No and the Callsign
and I
will pass the information on to the sub-manager who lives locally and is
not
on the internet.

The Sub-manager is R.A.C. Bunce (M3DXR)  46 Gordon Street, Gainsborough,
Lincs, DN21  1DJ

I know from first hand experience the Contest Call sub managers have not
been exactly 110% in the past but this guy is genuine and wants to help.
It
is up to us as part of the Contest Community to help him do his unpaid
thankless task. Many spend lots of hard earned pennies putting stations
together but a few quid for postage and we shy away.


John G3LZQ
RSGB HF AWARDS MANAGER and QSL Manager for GU8D,G8D and holder of M2D
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