I couldn't agree more with your statement Bill.
I worked Johnston Island as WY5L/KH3 from 1989 to 1990 and am even today
doing the same as you mentioned with those who are still contacting my
QSL manager N5DAS.
A DX station needs to understand and convey that they are human also and
as subject to mistakes as anyone else. Otherwise, we are starting a
precedence not one of us is going to want to live with.
When you are on the other side and in the middle of a *real pile up* it
is inevitable you will mess up, no matter how good an operator you are.
No one should be made to suffer as a result of your own pride.
To do less is to do harm to our community as a whole and bruise the
comradeship we are to be about. Amateur Radio has been and needs to
maintain oneness in the purpose of furthering the art rather than the
artist.
7&3,
BOB
KE5CTY
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From: cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com
[mailto:cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Bill Turner
Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 5:53 PM
To: w2nra@optonline.net; cq-contest@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] e qsl
You apparently have never had YOUR call busted by a once-in-a-lifetime
DXpedition. If I am the DX station and I get your QSL card with time,
date,
mode and band right and the call off by one letter, I will assume it's
my
fault and I WILL QSL. To do otherwise would be cruel and unusual
punishment. :-)
--
Bill, W6WRT
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Original Message:
At 10:15 AM 5/2/2005, w2nra@optonline.net wrote:
>You don't! A busted call is a busted QSO! If a station does not get
>your
>call right, you are N.I.L. and that is the way it's supposed to be. If
>you had sent YV0D a card from W9SZ with a SASE and the YV0D had your
>callsign in his log as W9HZ, you'd get your own card back in the mail
>marked N.I.L. and maybe a note saying he's sorry. Why should it be
>different with any other means of QSLing?
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