[Dx-qsl] QSL'ing to Contest Teams

Tue Jan 15 12:31:14 EST 2008

>From the QSL Bureau perspective here are some details:

1. The contesters are the heavy QSL bureau users, 
 but not the heaviest.
2. Contesters apply different strategies relevant to 
 QSLing:
 - Do not QSL at all. In every next contest they 
 use new callsign and never send any cards.
 - Contesters send QSL for every (contest) QSO
 log and never look or control the return,
 - Contesters respond to received bureau requests.
3. More and more contesters submit logs into LoTW
 and never send anything at all via the QSL bureau
 for contest QSOs.
Usually it takes time to send QSLs via the bureau
for the following reasons:
 - QSLs need to be printed (usually in foreign country)
 - Stickers need to be printed and sticked to the card
 - QSOs need to be checked, QSL card filled out, or 
 sticker printed, and sticked.
In Canada the heaviest users send around 100 lb of 
bureau QSL cards annually. Typical figure is lower around
10-30 lbs. Overall, contesters' traffic is 40-50% of the 
entire Bureau QSL traffic. 
73 Nenad "The manager" VE3EXY ....
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Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 4:27 PM
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I don't reply to these. I believe they are sent in bulk.
73 Don K5AQ