[Dx-qsl] qsling down under - VK??

Sat Jan 13 05:36:23 EST 2007

Hi Nick,
Yes I have had the same problem over the past 20 years with VK QSLs....
its not a new problem...
 but many VKs don't QSL and never have and possibly never will.....
I use the prefix AX on the 26th january each year, and although I don't make 
a lot of contacts
I do try to use the callsign every year, and I make special all color QSL 
cards on My Computer...
plus You have just reminded Me that I also printed out some Special QSL 
cards
for the Young Foundation Licencees I made contact with during a couple of VK 
contests last year...
I just have to send them.... I made them larger than normal QSL cards....
I'm hoping Mine will be their first QSL card.... and not the ONLY VK QSL 
card they will receive...
I'm sure many VKs may not know about the common courtesy of repling to a QSL 
card...
I really don't know what You can do , to fix the problem........
You could check their callsign on QRZ.com etc and see if there are any QSL 
details...
73
Lee Noonan VK2LEE AX2LEE
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "VK1AA" <vk1aa at tpg.com.au>
To: <dx-qsl at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2007 8:36 PM
Subject: [Dx-qsl] qsling down under
> On November 30, 2006. my 9 years old boy got his
> novice call - VK2FJDX. The very same day he made 8 contacts with VK's
> Because he is not yet a member of QSL bureau
> I suggested to him to send all qsl cards direct with self addressed 
> envelope
> and appropriate return postage (stamps).
> One would think this is enough to get the cards back but we went
> step further writing on each card "Thank you for the contact, I am 9 years
> old. Please QSL".
>> To cut to long story short, six weeks later he only received 2 cards back.
> The return rate is an astonishing 25% !
>> After all this I am now convinced that worst QSL'ers are not Russian,
> Yugoslav or Indonesians.
> They are actually my own country folks - the VK's.
>> Is "no-qsl" policy now becoming a global phenomenon?
> Is anyone actually teaching new hams that replying to QSL card should be
> common courtesy ?
> Or was that part of ham syllabus chopped off and washed way along with 
> Morse
> code requirement?
>> Nick VK1AA/2
>>>>>> &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 
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>>