[Dx-qsl] Re: QSL Statistics

2002年1月11日 10:42:08 -0500

Osten B Magnusson wrote: (In Part)
> Lately there is one problem-station: I don't seem to be able to get a
> card from LZ0A, South Shetland Islands, need the QSL for my 80
> meter DXCC and worked LZ0A in January 2001, the QSL-manager
> given in QSO's, LZ1KDP, is just a ''mail-drop''. Operator and supposed
> to hande the cards is LZ2UU.

I worked this station in Feb 99 and received a card Nov 99. I sent it to the
club station LZ1KDP with an sase. (Bulgarian stamp) I guess being a club
station, the QSLing is done by volunteers and it usually takes a while.
> When you work a station
> here in Europe and send an SAE with a ''greenstamp'' it will cover
> the postage cost, at least here in Sweden, BUT if the operator you
> worked just gets one to three QSL's or so with ''greenstamps'' each
> year, and he is not interested in re-using the ''greenstamps'' for his
> own QSL'ing, the cost for foreign currency exchange at our banks
> is so high that he wouldn't answer anyway, banks here in Sweden
> charge between 6 and 10 USD for an exchange...

Those are interesting comments. So do I understand it correctly that there is
a flat rate for an exchange? If one exchanged one USD or one hundred USDs for
their own currency is the price the same? If that's the case, this may
explain why some are slow about responding, if they are saving up a batch of
greenstamps to get their money's worth.
73,
Hal K4HB
http://www.k4hb.com