[UK-CONTEST] QSL Policy Was G3RVM (QSL-ing...)

Mon Feb 1 06:34:17 PST 2010

I am not saying QSL every contct made, far be it I would be spending more on card printing than on living costs!!! 

What I am saying is that the person who sent the card is obviously in need of the conformation, or may be just a QSL collector, or (as Clive says) gets it all for free with their subscription service. Why not do as others have said get the cards, reply to any that ask and then recycle them. 

I collect them as momentos of the contacts so my situation differs.

Chris Colclough
G1VDP
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http://www.mc0shl.com
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QTHR

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From: Clive GM3POI <gm3poi2 at btinternet.com>
To: UK-Contest at contesting.com
Sent: Monday, 1 February, 2010 13:21:32
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] G3RVM (QSL-ing...)

Why should you need an EU LoTW just use LoTW you do 
not have to be a ARRL member. The only reason you get 
hundreds of EU QSLs is that the operation of both in 
and out of their QSL system is included in the 
membership of DARC or which ever National Society 
they belong to. The RSGB is the odd one out in EU  in 
that respect. 73 Clive GM3POI
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David G3YYD" <g3yyd at btinternet.com>
To: <UK-Contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, February 01, 2010 11:53 AM
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] G3RVM (QSL-ing...)

>I have a very simple policy if some one sends me a 
>QSL card and asks for
> one from me I send them one in reply. However after 
> I have worked
> thousand+ QSOs in a weekend contest I know I am 
> going to get 10s if not
> 100s of cards from Germany all of which I will 
> reply to and then throw
> their card into my recycle box for the next local 
> council collection.
>
> Seems to me to be a total waste of resource so may 
> be we need to shout
> at the RSGB to strive within the IARU for an EU 
> LOTW equivalent and
> encourage contesters to not send cards but upload 
> to the database
> instead. Then cross feed the EU LOTW database with 
> the US LOTW and make
> it a proper Log Book of the World rather than just 
> one concentrated on
> ARRL awards..
>
> David G3YYD
>
>
>
> On 01/02/2010 09:24, Stewart Rolfe wrote:
>> Chris,
>>
>> Personally I can't understand the need to have a 
>> qsl card for each contact made but appreciate 
>> there are plenty who still live by the tenet of 
>> "the final courtesy is a qsl..."
>>
>> So after running out of storage space I've asked 
>> my sub-manager to 'recycle' my cards and I'll seek 
>> any card for dxcc confirmation etc by other 
>> routes. But I've also 'publicised' my willingness 
>> to return *any* qsl requests from stations asking 
>> by either direct card, over the air or via email. 
>> By publicising I mean a qrz.com profile and 
>> regular references over the air.
>>
>> Ideally I'd like everyone to take note and for my 
>> sub-manager not to have any cards to bin as it's 
>> such a waste. I'm sure he still gets them as I 
>> followed this policy for a trip to The Gambia last 
>> year and yet still get buro cards for that (which 
>> I respond to..). So does anyone have any 
>> suggestions for reducing my 'buro hit rate' such 
>> as other fora like qrz.com that some may use..? At 
>> the end of the day one can't do anything about 
>> those that have their logging programs set to send 
>> a buro qsl for each qso logged including many 
>> contest stations.
>>
>> I can foresee a future system where one's logging 
>> program will telnet a message to the other end 
>> indicating qsl preference when the contact is 
>> logged; very handy for contests....
>>
>> 73,
>>
>> Stewart, GW0ETF
>>
>> (No longer collecting shoe boxes..)
>>
>> --- On Sun, 31/1/10, CHRIS 
>> COLCLOUGH<chrisg1vdp at btinternet.com>  wrote:
>>
>>
>>> 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?
>>>
>>
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