[Dx-qsl] Never give up!

Fri Jan 30 00:08:55 EST 2009

Not neccesarily.
I can think of a few stations that I have yet to get a card from, for QSO's
going back 5 years or more.
In some cases... well, I'm going to pick on one particular DXpedition...
Remember the H8A "NIMBY" licensing fiasco 7 years ago? I've never gotten a
card (under my previous call) from the operation. But, in their defense,
you may recall that there was quite a long time between the end of the
operation and the times that many others got their cards, and in that time,
I moved. So... did the original card get returned because the forwarding
had expired? (Yes, it was that long!) Still... I've since tried direct,
via bureau, via WF5E, and still bupkus. Are the logs closed? Are my
requests being "intercepted" for green stamps? Who knows? No longer
matters, I've gotten Panama confirmed on 40, 30 & 17, but it's the
principle.
Still... how often should I keep sending a request? Every year? Ever two?
Every five? And if the manager isn't getting my requests, for whatever
reason... well, he may assume that I'm not interested in the card, but that
would be incorrect.
-----Original Message-----
From: dx-qsl-bounces at mailman.qth.net
[mailto:dx-qsl-bounces at mailman.qth.net]On Behalf Of Ron Lago
Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 2:09 PM
To: Callaway Ed-eaim148
Cc: dx-qsl at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Dx-qsl] Never give up!
If they wait more than 10 years, I would assume they didnt want the card
that bad. I have 15 different logs that will soon go away. They were
from the 70's and 80's.
Ron
Callaway Ed-eaim148 wrote:
> Dave,
>> When you're tempted to destroy a log [*shudder*], why not just join the
> QSL Manager's Society (http://www.qsl.net/qslmanagers/ , a.k.a. N2OO &
> Co.) and get a referral instead? That way, you're free of the
> responsibility, but The Deserving can still get their 30-year-old QSOs
> confirmed.
>> With a society "created to protect and preserve Amateur Radio DX and
> DXpedition logs and to make QSL cards available for ALL such logs, no
> matter how old," it would seem that no log should ever be destroyed
> again.
>> Just a thought --
>> Ed N4II.
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> Date: 2009年1月28日 18:42:14 -0500
> From: "Dave Novoa" <dnovoa at bellsouth.net>
> Subject: Re: [Dx-qsl] Never give up!
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>> That's true, Scott. From time to time I receive requests for cards
> confirming a QSO with KP4AM/Desecheo, in March, 1979. I have been
> tempted twice to destroy the paper logs (3 bound volumes, two columns
> per page), but I still hesitate to do it.
> 73,
>> Dave, W4DN
> (EX-KP4AM)
> Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've got...till it's
gone.
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>>Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've got...till it's
gone.
from Big Yellow Taxi (Joni Mitchell) but also true about QSL.NET if more
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