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

[Don Field]

Over 30,000 direct confirmations so far mailed out for 3B7C, and requests
still coming in at 20-30 a day. We have seen no decline in % terms since our
first (1998) expedition as 9M0C. As Dave NKC says, it will be interesting to
see whether things have changed in another 10 years, but certainly no
discernable change yet!

On another matter, G7TWC's comment about "value for money". I would only ask
that Mike check out the annual sub for PW or any of the bookstall computer
mags. And then compare that with RSGB, whereby one gets a magazine and a
whole lot more besides (much of it by unpaid volunteers). But I guess some
folk are never satisfied.

Don G3XTT


On 16/12/2007, G3SXW <g3sxw at btinternet.com> wrote:
>
> 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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