[Dx-qsl] QSL Etiquette

Tue Feb 28 15:27:40 EST 2012

Calm down, Tom. :) I am not questioning the pros and cons of sending 
contest QSLs. I am only asking what I should do when I receive one that 
doesn't explicitly request one in return.
Dick
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Dick Flanagan K7VC
dick at k7vc.com
On 2/28/2012 12:11 PM, Tom Wylie wrote:
> 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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