The QSLs can still be gotten. You just have to work at it a bit harder these days and be willing to take whatever you can get. Often the QSL will be a prepared card that the DXer sends and gets signed, or maybe a FAX or e mail QSL. There generally is someone at a station that will QSL your report. You just have to look. Also stations change personal at times and the next person may be more apt to QSL a report. You just have to do things a bit different than 20 years ago. There is always the one way you can have a 100% return is to pysically visit the station, like if you are going in that direction on vacation or a business trip. I have only been turned down once for a QSL when walking in the door, and that was the old KISN Portland back in the 70s, but I later got one anyway. Always be polite and you know the "PR" thing. Rudeness never gets a person anywhere. After all the station is going out of their way to do YOU the favor. There have been some negative problems involving a few DXers and radio stations the past few years and things like that do not help our situation. A few weeks ago, the IRCA had their yearly convention in Salt Lake City. We had wonderful tours of KSL/KUTR and KSOP. The people at the stations could not do enough for us with stickers and other great goodies. As I always have said that we need the stations more than they need us. So always keep that in mind.
73, Patrick Patrick Martin KAVT Reception Manager _______________________________________________ IRCA mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: [email protected]
