[VHFcontesting] VUCC Card Checking Question

[Jim Worsham]

I agree with all of these comments.  I have done many of the same things
(250+ grids confirmed on 6) and have gotten somewhere around an 80% return
rate.

73
Jim, W4KXY

-----Original Message-----
From: vhfcontesting-bounces at contesting.com
[mailto:vhfcontesting-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Matt Patterson
Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 3:56 PM
To: VHFcontesting at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] VUCC Card Checking Question

Les,

The way I understand it having the cards printed out will not qualify
them for ARRL credit either.  They were still confirmed via eQSL which
is the issue.

How are you QSL'ing?  Do you include a SASE?  Maybe a note that you're
trying for VUCC and need their grid?  You shouldn't have that low of a
return rate.  For a couple I was needing, after the third time and no
response I printed out a self adhesive label out of my logging program
where all they would have to do is confirm the information and affix it
to their card and mail it back.  Also, sometimes the person you are
QSLing may not have cards. You might include a note that if they don't
have a QSL card to send back that just write the info down on a standard
index card and sign it and mail that back to you.  That will work...

Then there are some that just plain won't take the time to send anything
back no matter how easy you make it for them.  Hang in there...

73 Matt
W5LL
On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 14:37 -0600, Les Rayburn wrote:
> Please pardon another newbie question, but here goes. 
> 
> I'm actively trying to earn VUCC on a number of bands including 6 Meters.
In the case of that band, operating for one year has netted me 141 grids
using my indoor antenna and 100 watts. Unfortunately, it's only need
something like 35 confirmations of those QSO's. The cost of gathering them
has been no small affair either, with hundreds of dollars spent already on
postage, envelopes, QSL cards, etc. 
> 
> Yesterday, I noticed that I have perhaps another 15 or so QSO's confirmed
using the EQSL service. I know that currently the league does not accept
EQSL for awards credit (nor LoTW when it comes to VUCC). But I also noticed
that EQSL now offers a service where I can have the cards printed out and
mailed to me. 
> 
> My question is this. If I opt to have those confirmed contacts printed out
and mailed to me, would they then be acceptable for VUCC credit? 
> 
> 73,
> 
> Les Rayburn, N1LF
> EM63nf
> 121 Mayfair Park
> Maylene, AL 35114
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