[Dx-qsl] QSL Etiquette

Tue Feb 28 15:11:09 EST 2012

Some Buros in Europe only process cards if recipients are members like 
the DARC and soon to be the RSGB, so a fair percentage of
Contest cards will be returned to the sender, causing the buro grief, 
causing un-necessary postage costs which can never be recouped
and causing a lot of un-necessary sorting and filing both at the 
receiving and the sending ends........
No contest QSLs EVER! If somebody wants a card let them ask for 
one........
Save the rain forest.
The only winners are the QSL card printers!!!!
Tom
GM4FDM
On 28/02/2012 20:02, Vladimir Sidarau wrote:
> As long as you are not explicitly asked for a QSL by the PSE QSL request,
> just enjoy the card received and don't reply it. This kind of QSLs is just a
> tool big contest stations use in order to avoid burden with QSL requests. It
> is much easier to print 5000 QSLs or QSL stickers for all QSOs made in a
> contest at once than to keep on receiving bureau QSL requests for years and
> then check each of them for a correspondence with your log and then fill
> each card by hand or print a stocker for that or whatever. Then, sending
> large batches of QSLs at once is cheaper than break them into smaller
> numerous portions. Some serious contesters/contest teams play contests just
> for the contesting sake and not for cards. When the contest is over, they
> send in a log and then print and send TKS CONTEST QSO cards out. Then the
> contest is over for them, now they are on to another one.
>> The TNX CONTEST QSO cards is a good tool making all parties involved. It is
> being partially replaced (or being just duplicated) by the LoTW but it is
> still quite voluminous.
>> So, you may feel yourself comfortable in answering PSE QSL requests, only.
> All other QSLs are just for your own eventual perusal with no obligation to
> reply.
>> 73,
> Vladimir VE3IAE
>> ---
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dick Flanagan"<dick at k7vc.com>
> To: "DX-QSL Reflector"<DX-QSL at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2012 2:30 PM
> Subject: [Dx-qsl] QSL Etiquette
>>>> I started to become active in RTTY contesting last year and am now
>> starting to receive hundreds of unsolicited bureau QSL cards for those
>> contacts. I would say that about two-thirds of them specifically state
>> "PSE QSL" which I am more than happy to do, but how should I handle
>> those that simply say "TNX NICE QSO" or simply contain nothing other
>> than the QSO data?
>>>> Part of me wants to think that they wouldn't have gone to the trouble of
>> sending me a card if they didn't want one in return, but is that a valid
>> assumption? Would it be rude of me to not return a card without an
>> explicit "PSE QSL?" The time and cost to me of a bureau return is
>> negligible, but is it naive of me to think that every unsolicited QSL is
>> a request for mine??
>>>> I want to do the right thing, but I'm not always sure what that is.
>>>> Dick
>>>> -- 
>> Dick Flanagan K7VC
>> dick at k7vc.com
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