[Dx-qsl] duplicate bureau cards

[Bill Morgan]

This comment may or may not be specifically relevant to Stu's situation but 
DARC has a couple of certificate programs based on QSOs per year and I think 
QSL cards are required.  There may be other sponsors with similar 
certificate programs.

 This might be a reason why some DXers would like to receive QSLs for same 
band/mode contacts made in different years.

73
Bill, K0DEQ
bmorgan at fidnet.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stuart Santelmann KC1F" <kc1f at adelphia.net>
To: <dx-qsl at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, August 20, 2006 9:30 AM
Subject: [Dx-qsl] duplicate bureau cards


Hello:

I'm going through a stack of received bureau cards, mostly from contest 
operations.  I'm more than happy to receive all these cards, and I lovingly 
examine them and file them in order.  I do however receive MANY bureau cards 
from Europe that have obviously been sent in a mass printing dump, for the 
same band and mode that I have QSLed before - some are even handwritten. 
I've taken to checking in my logging program DXbase to see whether I've 
QSLed them before on that band mode, and then I ignore the second request.

But then I've wondered if by some circumstance they needed another card for 
some other reason - I just now looked at a QSL from IK2VFW - ""From fire 
destruction pse QSL again 73".  I'll answer this one !  Fausto I hope you 
and your family are OK !

I have 55,000 QSLs over 37 years and still expanding - not as many as K3ZO I 
don't think !

Stu        KC1F

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