Martin, Thank you for your comments on the hobby as a whole. I TOTALLY agree with you. The DX lists have become a place to complain on everything and anything. I delete a lot of e mails myself as they are not DX worthy. The "C" term I mentioned was because as not using it, is good for all of us. The HD subject is tiring on me also. I don't like it anymore than any of us, but in so many cases it is the same rehashed over and over (no pun). It is a subject that is very near and dear to us all. But maybe it is burnout with me. Too much of a good thing I guess. OK, the subject of QSLs. Martin is right, I find some CE just do not have the interest in QSLing. Some have called them useless pieces of paper. I think not, when I have seen some historic QSLs on ebay going for hundreds of dollars. Those of you that are into the historical side of the hobby, consider QSLs collectables or antiques. The e mail QSL or ppc does not have the value to me as a historic piece of letterhead or that QSL card, but I take what I can get. I'll bet my 3500 MW/SW QSLs is worth quite a piece of change if I was to sell it, but I would not. But there is a value there. Probably not many have considered that. Look at a program on collectables or antiques on PBS. I am amazed what some things sell for. Besides that value, there is a beautiful historic value. Like a station I have QSL'd under every call change. There is a history there that the stations don't even realize. Having a station on harddrive or tape is fine. I do the same, but that beautiful QSL has a lot more value, if nothing else, in history. 73,
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