Jeff,
This is a twist on an old saying:
A QSO is the final courtesy of a QSL!
I don't blame Steve one bit. How many of the QSOs you make in a
contest are active contesters? Maybe half? Why are the others
giving you a QSO? Some are just working stations up and down
the band. Others want your QSL for whatever reason.
I return QSL all buro cards received. I've noticed the result in some
of the serial number contests. For example, the first night I work
DL1XXX, he gives me 599008 on 40. The next morning I work him
on 10, and he gives me 599021. Three hours later on 15, he gives
me 599028. Another hour later on 20, 599035.
This happens regularly. Here are a bunch of guys, who have my
QSL, who are searching the bands and giving points to the guys
who returned their QSL. They appreciate my card. I appreciate their
QSO!
73 Barry W2UP
On 26 Feb 01, Jeffrey Clarke wrote:
>
>
> IK4WMH wrote :
>
> Hi everyone,a few days before ARRL CW Contest I checked my logbook
> program searching for unreplied qsl cards during the years.
> I focused on those qsl cards sent via the bureau for contest qso's in
> the years up to 1997, I believe a 4 years period is long enough to get
> a qsl card via the bureau. The result was a list of about 60 u.s.
> callsigns and a couple of canadians who never replied to my qsl cards.
> Then I created a new multiplier called QSL, and filled the ARRL 2001
> CW contest log file with these callsigns on all bands, as if I already
> worked all these guys and they all sent me this strange multiplier.
> During the contest I was mainly doing S&P, and when I found a station
> which was already in the log and marked with the QSL multiplier I
> turned the knob.
> A few of these are well known big multi-multi stations, so giving the
> fact that some of them probably have 600+ mults worked, that I worked
> on 3 bands, and that each qso is 3 points worth, those stations lost
> 5,000 up to 6,000 points. I am not going to write callsigns, they know
> who they are. Contesting is funny, receiving qsl cards after contest
> qso's is also funny. During the last weekend, while carefully avoiding
> to work those guys,I had a lot of fun.
> --------------------------------------------------
> Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
> --------------------------------------------------Ciao.
> Steve, IK4WMH
> mailto:topdxer@tin.it
>
>
> Steve,
>
> I think that's a pretty unfair thing to do - everyone doesn't use
> the QSL buro. If you wanted a card bad enough you should send it direct
> with a SASE/IRC... I bet 90% of those people will answer you...
>
> There are many people who are just not interested in collecting QSL
> cards... myself included. I do not even use the QSL buro and I never
> tell anyone to send me a card via the buro. If you mail a card direct
> with a SASE/IRC's ... I will return you a card but otherwise you are
> out of luck !
> Jeff KU8E
>
>
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