[Dx-qsl] QSL Etiquette

Tue Feb 28 22:26:49 EST 2012

This is from an old bird for QSL protocols....after 200K+ QSL's Issued....
I answered all QSL's direct via the postage given with an SASE...if I had to 
add to it a bit ...so be it
Buro cards were answered that way....multiple envelope buro cards were 
answered only separate unless an SAE was involved.
Multi multi dupe cards via buro were answered only up to the the first 2 
replies, then file 13
SASE directs were pretty well answered 100% of the time unless WAY under 
postaged for return. Part went buro, part went direct.
SAE's went via buro
Over postaged return SASE's normally got an IRC or envelope back
Email requests went to file 13
I had kept in close contact with the buro "master" for my call...if anything 
unusual went on, Al let me know
Unfortunately, there isn't a 100% answer to all QSL questions. Sometimes 
the manager just has to dig !
Keep the spirit !
73
Ken
WA8JOC
Mgr for J52US, 9L1US, A22MN, 5H3US, etc....
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From: "Tom Wylie" <tgwylie at virginmedia.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2012 2:39 PM
To: "Dick Flanagan" <dick at k7vc.com>; <DX-QSL at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: Re: [Dx-qsl] QSL Etiquette
> There is no such thig as QSL Etiquette. Its up to each individual
> whether they qsl or not. My pwersonal policy is only to QSL cards 
> received.
>> I never send out buro cards only direct cards which I particularly
> need. Some stations are prolific QSLers and now they have a computer
> at their
> disposal print out QSL cards or labels like toilet tissue without regard
> to whether people actually want them or not.
>> The old days of the QSL being the final courtesy of a QSO are long
> gone. Where is the courtesy in 59 Montana! Where is the QSO for
> that matter.
>> You will receive the same card for the same band ad nauseum..............
>> Unless its one you specifically want - send them all to the round
> file. Re-cyle!
>> Use LOTW and forget the rest
>>>> :'(
> Tom
> GM4FDM
>>>>> On 28/02/2012 19:30, Dick Flanagan wrote:
>> 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
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