[Dx-qsl] QSLing: Patience is rewarded

Sun Jun 4 16:39:57 EDT 2006

I started seriously chasing countries on the WARC bands in late 2003. 
Since then, I've kept close track of when QSLs were sent and received.
Here are my statistics:
Time period	Qsls received/sent	Reply rate
2004		355/379			93.7%
1/05-6/05	99/112			88.4%
7/05-12/05	37/45			82.2%
1/06-6/06	17/35			48.6%
All cards were sent either direct or to a manager. Within USA, sent 
first class with SASE. Foreign sent airmail with IRCs and/or $.
2004 results include a few dozen requests for older QSLs dating back as 
far as late 1990.
73,
John, K9MM