[Dx-qsl] Short Wave Listener Cards

Mon Jul 1 16:32:01 2002

--- Tom Wylie <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am a bit disappointed in the response from SWL
> stations.
>> I've yet to get a decent valid reason for continuing
> to QSL swl reports -
> apart from "we've always done it!"
>> Most it has to be agreed are pretty useless....
>> Convince me!
>> 73 de tom
> gm4fdm
>
Tom, et al,
I've been following this "string" for a bit, and
here's
my $.02.... 
Before I was first licensed as a novice way back in
1967 I was an SWL'er. I sent for cards, and the cards
came, though most of my requests were to commerical SW
radio stations.
I receive only a few SWL requests per year. I confirm
all of them, usually direct. 
I guess I feel that confirming an SWL report is the
same as a request to confirm any other QSO. I'm happy
to do it, if only for the reputation of our hobby.
In this hobby I try to hold myself to the highest
level of courtesey. Confirming an SWL request is part
of that standard.
73,
de harry, W6DXO
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