[Dx-qsl] buro cards

Tue Sep 20 07:46:17 EDT 2005

Life was much simpler in the 'Good Ole' days, everyone sent QSL cards,
whether it was the Ham across town that you worked on 75M or the one from
'Down Under' on 20M.
No envelopes needed in those days, you just slapped a 'cheap' stamp on the
back of the hard cardboard card, addressed it and dropped it in the mailbox.
The return card normally crossed yours in the mail.
Must have been the soft warm glow of the vacuum tubes, or maybe the
comforting hum from the output transformer, that kindled the giving spirit
generating the 'final courtesy' of the QSO.
Oh well! That was loooong ago.
I must shuffle out the door and stagger down the road for my health walk, 
but first a glass of warm milk.
73, Carl VE9OV
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "NK0S" <nk0s at ec.rr.com>
To: "Ron" <ron at pacinfo.com>; <bernie at dailydx.com>; <ku9c at ku9c.com>;
"'dx-qsl-mailman.qth.net'" <dx-qsl at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2005 8:02 AM
Subject: Re: [Dx-qsl] buro cards
>A QSL card is the final courtesy for a QSO . . . I missed 5BWAS from YS
>land
> because the only contact I had with RI on 20m was with a HAM who "didn't
> believe in QSLing"....but I noticed he never sent back the YS9HH cards I
> sent him.
> Hutch, NK0S
> (hp1xhh, ys9hh, hl9hp)
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Ron" <ron at pacinfo.com>
> To: <bernie at dailydx.com>; <ku9c at ku9c.com>; "'dx-qsl-mailman.qth.net'"
> <dx-qsl at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Monday, September 19, 2005 10:07 PM
> Subject: RE: [Dx-qsl] buro cards
>>>> Hi Bernie, I doubt that most people would be willing to spend the time
> that
>> managers do...let alone the money spent from our own pockets just to get
>> a
>> card to someone. A lot of these guys think its a money making deal to be
>> a
>> manager...for those of you who do... come back to reality.
>> When I got that email from K5WW, I should have just rolled with the punch
>> but I didn't. I just want to say "I am sorry for telling him to do to
>> himself what is humanly impossible"
>>>> At
>>>> 09:50 PM 9/19/2005 -0400, Bernie McClenny wrote:
>>>>>> >Steve and everyone else. It's not just the money but the time also!
>> >And
>> >that is more valuable than the money.
>> >
>> >Bernie
>> >
>> >
>> >Bernie McClenny, W3UR
>> >
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>> >-----Original Message-----
>> >From: dx-qsl-bounces at mailman.qth.net
> [mailto:dx-qsl-bounces at mailman.qth.net]
>> >On Behalf Of Steven Wheatley KU9C
>> >Sent: Monday, September 19, 2005 20:52
>> >To: dx-qsl-mailman.qth.net
>> >Subject: Re: [Dx-qsl] buro cards
>> >
>> >Ahhhhh...the proverbial can of worms has been opened. For the record, I
>> >follow Ron and Phil's 'process'....if you've got it on a band/mode, the
> only
>> >way you'll get a second card is via a direct request.
>> >
>> >Last count of bureau cards received, where I did a 'serious tally' of
>> >the
>> >results, showed that about 60% (58 to be exact) were duplicates....being
>> >defined as the call I manage had been requested and answered before for
> the
>> >band/mode.
>> >
>> >Now, if someone wants to "help"....lets do the math on the next 70
>> >pounds
> I
>> >get....
>> >
>> >Roughly 300 bucks for QSL cards
>> >Roughly 24 bucks for labels
>> >roughly 40 bucks to get the cards to me
>> >roughly 280 bucks to get the cards back out
>> >
>> >Do that math, and then look at 60% of it due to 'duplication'. Add on
> top
>> >of that you have to often make a choice with an hour...do direct, or
>> >sort
>> >thru the burro cards....realizing, also, as Nenad pointed out...many
>> >have
>> >come via direct as well.
>> >
>> >Not having a bad day, just making those that send a card to everything
> that
>> >moves realize what the pain is.
>> >
>> >73
>> >
>> >&quot;Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've
> got...till
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>> >about
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>>>>>>>> &quot;Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've
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>>> &quot;Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've
> got...till it's gone.&quot; from Big Yellow Taxi (Joni Mitchell) but also
> true about QSL.NET if more users don't open their wallets and help
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