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

[G3SXW]

Peter,
YOU don't understand the magic of paper-QSLing. Your prerogative. But for 
many folks it's much more than "information capable of digital 
transmission".  It's not cold logic - it's human nature.

Anyway, where is your evidence for "terminal decline"? I check the stats on 
all my DXpeditions. The incoming paper requests have run at around 50-60% 
(depending on rarity) for decades. I discern no decline.
73 de Roger/G3SXW.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Hobbs" <peter at tilgate.co.uk>
To: "UK Contest reflector" <uk-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2007 3:02 PM
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] OT: RSGB move and QSL bureau - closure?


>> 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
>
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