[Dx-qsl] Contest QSLs

Fri Apr 5 16:40:02 2002

Hi, Tony,
What are going to be the criteria for calling someone a bad QSLer? I guess
that's my only concern. I agree that anyone who wants to call CQ on the air
(contest or not) should be willing to answer QSL cards...especially for
those people that have helped him/her have a successful contest score (it's
been proven that the "casual contester" is VERY important to a person's
score), but I think that the high volumes of QSL cards that some of these
people receive should also be taken into account...AD1C wrote about this:
http://www.kc1xx.com/qsls/kc1xx_qsl.htm with regards to KC1XX's situation.
I have received cards from many people that have been labeled bad QSLers,
and I know others with a bad QSLing reputation who have simply gotten
behind. K4WI (ex-K4JYO) has just printed over 5,000 labels that he and his
wife are now attaching to QSL cards. If he truly refused to answer QSLs we
would not have allowed him to use the club call of AI4AA in the last
contest.
All this to say that I'd hate for someone's reputation and/or even contest
score to be hurt because he/she was listed as a bad QSLer when often there
are circumstances that differ from a simple refusal to QSL. At the same
time, I have no problem with someone making sure that a true non-QSLer is
"blacklisted."
One of the things I like about this list is that there is a very large base
of people here and it usually becomes quite obvious whether or not someone
QSLs, along with reasons why a particular person might not be returning QSLs
(Abubaker, with the call 5A1A is a good example).
Best wishes on getting the list together and know that if I'm "searching and
pouncing" that I'll be more than happy to support the boycott of operators
who are definite bad QSLers. That being said, I hope you've received my
cards via the bureau by now. =)
73,
Bridget, KS4YT