[UK-CONTEST] QSL policy

[cris at gm4fam.plus.com]

Its annoyed me too - many subscribers to this reflector get 000s of
unwanted cards, and I hope that most of us reply to them - WE may not need
the cards - the sender may well do.

I for one shall continue with a 100% reply policy to ANYONE; this on the
basis that I appreciate receipt of my card requests from someone who
doesn't necessarily need my GM card.

Its all part of the game, or it should be.

73 Cris
GM4FAM


> Sorry to jump in here but the following quote has annoyed me;
>
>  "LOTW gives me the occasional new confirmation for DXCC CW which
> is all I really need and I don't think anyone will be needing a QSL from a
> common G."
>
> Break it down and this is very selfish. Think back to when you first
> started out in your long amateur career and started chasing the awards you
> wanted. Now lets look at it from the side of a new operator who has his
> first QSO (any mode) with a "common G" station and he sends a card, but
> the common G station has "lost interest in QSL cards" and is only getting
> the occasional LOTW confirmation which they are intersted in.
>
> Maybe it is just me who thinks like this, and maybe G is common but
> someone has taken their time to send a QSL card to confirm the contact -
> does this not tell you they would like your card as confirmation of the
> contact for some award or the memory of it?
>
> I guess I am going to get lambasted for this and will get slated for my
> views but as an avid collector of QSL cards myself I think it is just
> common courtesy to return a card to the station who sends me one, and I am
> not a common G station with being one of the few really active G1 stations
> left on the air.
>
>
> Chris Colclough
> G1VDP
> http://www.g1vdp.com
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>
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> QTHR
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Ian Trusson <ian.trusson at ntlworld.com>
> To: G3RAU at aol.com; uk-contest at contesting.com
> Sent: Sunday, 31 January, 2010 21:15:07
> Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] G3RVM
>
> Derek
>
> It is very kind of you to let me know, but I seem to have lost interest in
> QSL cards. LOTW gives me the occasional new confirmation for DXCC CW which
> is all I really need and I don't think anyone will be needing a QSL from a
> common G. Would you be able to send the cards for recycling?
>
> 73
> Ian, G3RVM
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com
>> [mailto:uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of G3RAU at aol.com
>> Sent: 31 January 2010 20:52
>> To: uk-contest at contesting.com
>> Subject: [UK-CONTEST] G3RVM
>>
>> To:- G3RVM
>> Pse contact G3RAU re shifting pile of ur QSL cards at sub
>> buro,  tnx Anybody who has his e mail pse pass this on, tnx.
>> 73
>> Derek G3RAU
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