[UK-CONTEST] OT: RSGB move and QSL bureau - closure?

[Peter Hobbs]

> LoTW covers DXCC and WAS.......Nothing else.
>
 . . . where the US leads, others inevitably follow . . .

I may have been a little tongue-in-cheek, but QSLs are, after all, nothing 
but information which is capable of digital transmission, as evidenced by 
the precipitous decline in the letter sector of the postal service (now 
viable only as a result of the growth of junk mail).  Things are changing 
fast - if one particular "soft" QSL solution bites the dust as a result of 
NIH, better ones are bound to surface.

In the same way as TV standards are eventually resolved, it will happen and 
it won't take long.  In a technical hobby such as ours, digital QSLing 
should be in the vanguard.   I certainly wouldn't put cash into a management 
buy-out of a manual sorting service in terminal decline, if that is what 
someone suggested could be a solution.

How many contest entry logs now use the postal service?  And a QSL fulfils a 
very similar function at the end of the day.

73
Peter G3LET