[Dx-qsl] QSL for 2 QSO's

Mon Jul 14 17:08:24 EDT 2008

A good question - kind of rhetorical.......
I qsl manage about 40 stations. Sometimes I get a request for a card 
for 80m asking I only need a card for 80m for single band DXCC - fair 
enough. Sometimes I get a request for a card with 2 QSOs on it and 
one is NOT IN THE LOG. So the guy gets a card for his single QSO and 
usually I return the received card - with the duff QSO highlighted as NIL...
However, I get literally thousands of cards from the buro. There are 
normally quite a lot of anomalies on the buro cards.
Do I return the cards via the buro saying NIL - and thus clogging up an 
overworked buro system, or do I just return cards with a valid QSO? 
On the return cards I have to over write them in large black marker - 
return - NIL - otherwise quite often I again get them returned to me via 
the buro as the sorters have not read them properly.....
Why cant everybody just join LOTW and make life simpler for everybody.......
Tom
GM4FDM
Peter Dougherty wrote:
> At 04:12 PM 7/14/2008, Bernie McClenny, W3UR wrote:
>> Ron
>> I kind of agree with JA1BK's policy. A QSL manager should only 
>> confirm the
>> QSOs that are being requested and nothing more. Why? Well what if 
>> the said
>> station was in the DX log for 4 QSOS but only claimed three QSOs. 
>> And if
>> that fourth QSO was actually a busted call? That busted QSO should 
>> not be
>> confirmed just willy nilly.
>> I see both sides of that question, and have been on both sides of it 
> personally. Keeping the integrity of the logs is important, but my 
> personal philosophy is that there is some latitude in determining how 
> strictly to interpret this. For example, from down in C6, if I got a 
> request for a 20m Q and the other guy also worked me on 40, I'd send 
> both Q's in my reply because frankly C6 is a common entity and easy to 
> work. If I ever activated something in the top-100 or top-50, I'd go 
> the other way and only confirm what was specifically requested.
>> On the other side of this, I worked a V6 station on a band I needed, 
> and after the announced end-date of the operation, I sent off the 
> card. Two days later, he shows up on aother new band, I suppose 
> because his travel plans changed or maybe a flight got cancelled or 
> whatever. Winds up costing me an extra 3ドル to confirm that second band 
> because he (rightly) only confirmed what I asked for. He's completely 
> right to do so, IMHO, but given the costs involved, I DO kinda-wish 
> he'd confirmed everything. On the flipside, in the bureau this month I 
> got a whole package of cards for Martti Laine's various and sundry 
> contest operations that I worked over the last few years but never 
> sent cards for. Nice to put a "C" in the log for these, even though I 
> didn't need the cards for awards submission.
>>>> 73 and Good DX
>> Peter,
> W2IRT
>> Letter O Manager,
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