[UK-CONTEST] "Collecting" QSLs...

[CHRIS COLCLOUGH]

Well said Nigel. I am like you and collect QSL cards which to me are something to look back on and remind me of making the contact, whether in a contest or a major/minor dxpedition. 
   
  And as some one has said in a previous posting the band conditions at the moment are well down so the amount of cards coming in (and going out) will also be down. 
   
  Chris Colclough
  G1VDP
   
  P.S Sorry nigel my first reply came direct to you and missed the reflector.


Nigel <nigel at G3TXF.com> wrote:
  Hello Peter,

Sorry, but I can no longer refrain from hitting the keyboard, having read
your observations on QSL cards!

Many collect QSL cards just to "collect" them. No other reason. Not
primarily for awards, not for claiming anything, but just for the pure fun
of collecting them.

Others might collect cigarette cards, original Picasso paintings, pit-bull
terriers, fossils or old Morse keys. Serious collecting is addictive. That
applies equally to QSL cards.

http://www.g3txf.com/QSL-Office/QSL-Off.html

73 - Nigel G3TXF



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Hobbs" 

To: "UK Contest reflector" 
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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