[UK-CONTEST] Contest QSLing policies

[Andy Swiffin]

Hi,

We've changed QSL sub manager for the GM8 series and my previous QSL
drought has turned into a deluge with all my current envelopes arriving
at once plus half a dozen envelopes from 2004 that everyone swore blind
had not been passed on....  As a result I have a 4 inch plus pile of
cards to reply to.

Now, in these days of computerised logging the chore (for some people) 
of generating card runs is much reduced - unlike the chore of
replying.....   

As a policy I do not blanket QSL - particularly for contests, but it
looks to me like some people do.  What do other people do about replying
to these?

I have quite a few cards that are from major or minor expeditions, 
Martii Laine seems to be very fastdious about QSLing and I've got cards
from him as EA8BH, as ZA1A as OH/ZA... as .....  (I'm not sure if I
actually have one from oh2bh :-).   Do people like that _really_ want a
gm8oeg qsl for every incarnation that they've had (excellent card that
it is)?   And how about other lesser known people who generate a card on
computer but don't sign it or put 'pse qsl' on it - do they want a
card?

I don't generate cards from the computer and don't particularly intend
to start, I'm beginning to think of introducing a policy of only
replying to signed cards which explicitly say 'pse qsl' although there
is a temptation to say I'll only reply to hand written cards!

I'd be interested to hear what others do.

73
Andy 
gm8oeg