[Dx-qsl] Re: QSL Statistics

2002年1月11日 19:10:21 +0100

Yes, how many dollars you exchange here does not matter, maybe
different in other European countries. The same exchange rate is 
also the same if you want to buy ''greenstamps''. However, if you 
are a good customer at the bank and have a lot of money, maybe 
they will do it for free. The fact that you are a customer that the bank
want makes more difference than how many dollars you want to
exchage. Unfortenately most DX'ers don't have a lot of money for 
investments, in the stock market that is, all money already invested 
in big antennas...
Another thing is that if you like me live in a small town, 3000 people,
where everbody knows everybody and should want to exchange a 
small amount of USD, let's say less than ten, you could at times do 
it without charges. That's the way I buy USD for sending to the few 
QSL-managers not using the very fine bureau system. Back in 1962
when I started with DX almost all cards came via the bureau.
The problem today is that everyone is always in a great hurry, if one
thinks one is going to die soon, it does not matter much if the QSL is 
received a few days before that event or not! I remember working
an oldtimer, 98 years old, now gone, who wanted a QSL via the
bureau, he said that he wanted the card, but waiting a couple of 
years for a bureau-QSL was just fine.
73 de Osten SM5DQC 
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Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 4:42 PM
Subject: Re: [Dx-qsl] Re: QSL Statistics
Part of e-mail from K4HB:
> 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.

> Osten B Magnusson wrote: (In Part)
>> > 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
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