It never fails to amaze me how poorly some ops send QSL requests although I
will acknowledge and understand that some new HF ops may not yet understand how
to QSL a DX station (hence the ones sent as postcards and homebrew QSLs made
from marker pen or typed). Most DXpeditions have a website which give specific
QSL instructions and while there are some (maybe many) ops who do not have
internet, most DXpeditions also repeatedly give QSL instructions on the air.
VO2 Zone 2 isn't a rare DX location, may not even qualify for "uncommon"
status, but it still costs a lot of money to get there and operate from there.
Yet there are those who think it is the DX stations' responsibility to send a
QSL card under all conditions and at their expense merely upon sending their
QSL requests. Many or even most of these are serious and experienced DXers with
1x2 or 2x1 Extra callsigns or "DXCC", "WAZ", or even "5BDDXCC" on their cards,
so have been around the block for a few years. What are they thinking?
73 de Fred K2FRD, VO2FS
PS - Thanks for the opportunity to blow off some steam. I have a pile of buro
cards sitting on my desk to which I still need to respond.
At 3:33 PM +0000 29/11/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Hi Guys,
>
>Good tips for getting qsls faster. Here are some things to avoid {which are
>all too common}.
>
>1. Stateside stations sending a card through the bureau to a stateside qsl
>manager.
>
>2. Sending the card in an envelope, no SASE, no return postage.
>
>3. Sending the card with return postage, but no return envelope.
>
>4. Sending the card as a postcard.
>
>Be realistic. It may not have been a really rare contact, but the station or
>manager will be answering hundreds or maybe thousands of requests. The DX is
>not doing it to make money, but if your request either costs the DX or manager
>money to initiate a card back, or they have to provide and address an
>envelope, or address the card as a postcard, your request will get put in the
>back of the box to be answered last, if at all. Make things as easy as you
>can! Additional hint- fold back the envelope flap, or put the card between the
>envelope and flap. Receiving a request with the envelope sealed shut due to
>moisture will also get your equest to the back of the box.
>
>73, Duane, WV2B
>
>
>"The reward of a thing well done is to have done it."-
>Ralph Waldo Emerson
--
73 de Fred Stevens K2FRD, VO2FS
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