[Dx-qsl] RE: N7DC QSL MGR INFO

[Steven Wheatley KU9C]

I don't consider folks using the bureau as 'too cheap'....but as not in a hurry.  Most of the ones I get are for band/mode fills, I suspect. 

That being said, there is a group of folks that QSL EVERY QSO, particularly if they have access to a FREE outgoing bureau.  I think I understand why a contest station would do that, to 'pre-empt' the incoming bureau requests

My policy is very simple in this matter:

-If you have been issued a QSL from any method of delivery, I do NOT issue a bureau card.  In other words, if the QSO has been printed before, the bureau card gets no response.

Otherwise, it does get a response.  However, I do my bureau cards basically once a year.  I then bulk mail them, along with other high volume QSL managers and Contesters, to save on the cost of doing bureau mailings.  Like it or not, this can mean that it may take possibly 2 years to get your QSL back, depending on the speed of the bureau system in your country.

I would rather think a person is 'cheap' if they send me a color QSL card of their dx station, showing several thousand dollars in equipment, requesting 14 band/mode combinations for a dxpedition to a rare place simply sending a SASE, then I would from a bureau request....

just my .02 

73
Steve


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---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Ted Sarah-W8TTS <tsarah@neo.rr.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 05:43:14 -0400

>I sent the following on another reflector, in answer to the
>quoted comments.
>
>"Ever think that it might not be "too cheap", but finances.  As
>in
>some of us are on a fixed income, and still enjoy ham radio and
>the "art" of QSLing."
>
>Stu Greene wrote:
>> 
>> At 07:33 PM 4/14/02 -0400, Jim Kehler wrote:
>> 
>> >Bureaus are slow, and after 10 years of running one, I'd have to
>> >say they are totally unreliable. People use them for one reason -
>> >because they are too cheap to QSL direct.
>> 
>> You didn't have to say an more than this
>>
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