FW: FW: [Dx-qsl] Help with some Oldies

Sun Aug 27 15:26:41 EDT 2006

> Kelly Jones wrote:
>> N0KE is a friend of mine. I sent your request to him as he doesn't
>> watch this reflector. Here is his response.
>> 73 & GL
>> Kelly - N0VD

>>>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: vailphil at sopris.net [mailto:vailphil at sopris.net] Sent: Sunday, 
>> August 27, 2006 8:31 AM
>> To: Kelly Jones
>> Subject: Re: FW: [Dx-qsl] Help with some Oldies
>>>> Yes it is true, I am negligent in answering QSLs. I do answer them
>> eventually. Some people send me an E mail if they don't get it back
>> within a week. First they want to know if I received their card. As I
>> get them I put them in my big box of SASEs. Since I've operated under
>> several different calls and people generally don't put the call they are
>> confirming on the envelope, I can't easily tell if I received their QSL
>> and every now and then I grab a handful and answer them. I don't make
>> any effort to sort them. I've got about 9000 QSOs in one log of TI5/N0KE
>> that I'd like to send into LOTW if I could ever figure out how to do it.
>> ARRL acts like DXCC credits need the security of nuecular secrets and it
>> is way to difficult to do. I also have a bunch of logs for TI5N to send
>> to LOTW as W3HNK never sends them in.
>> Phil
>>>>>> Disgusting!
>
Hi Kelly:
You could suggest to N0KE that he consider the fact that people will get 
pissed off over non-QSLing (especially explicit non QSLing), and that will 
adversely affect his contest score in the future. I don't need TI on any 
band/mode but plenty of his contest callers will. MANY of the people who 
work us in DX contests do so because they want a QSL card, not a contest 
point. I knew I had to clean up my act 20 years ago when my contest runs 
into Europe were interrupted by callers complaining that they hadn't 
received my bureau QSL cards yet. And as for trying to figure out how to 
use LoTW, I'll have my 11 year daughter volunteer to help him out - she also 
at age 5 right away figured out the Palm Beach County Gore/Buchanan 
butterfly ballot. Finally, complaining about W3HNK's LoTW QSLing habits 
seems very strange, considering that Joe is probably the world's foremost 
and reliable QSL manager.
Stu KC1F