[Dx-qsl] German QSL Policy

[Christian Buenger]

Hi Graham,

In the case of the special event call, people enjoy operating the pile 
up. As they sometimes work station which they would never work with 
their personal call (either due to the station, the time, the non 
existent pile up etc.) they send cards for calls they could "use" for 
awards. Therefore the personal cards. Additionally some people like to 
collect cards wherever they come from. Even some send cards for the same 
band/mode at different dates !?!?.

The mail from Andrei explains it very good what happens :)

With respect to the QSL cards for the worldcup stations: Right now they 
have about 3,5 tons of QSL cards in Baunatal (HQ of the DARC) so this 
might take a bit of time to process the nearly 1 million cards. 
Therefore you haven't received anything from DR2006 or DQ2006. Please be 
patient ...

BTW: Your case has happened to me several times as well but the other 
way around. I was operating from a special event station (in this case 
OZ0AIS) and some german operators send qsl cards to OZ0AIS (which is 
correct) and the operator call (which is not correct as a QSO has never 
happened).

Therefore: NIL or save bureau bandwidth and ignore the cards.

73
Christian


Graham Ridgeway wrote:
> Can someone explain to me please, why it is that after working many
> special event stations from DL, one gets a pile of QSL cards from the
> individual operators - whose calls- obvioulsy-  do not appear in my
> log.
> 
> As an example In a batch from the Buro this week, I received 7
> individual cards from DL stations who claim QSO's when at that
> date/time/freq I worked [as an example] one of the DR2006 stations -
> for whom incidentally there has been no sight of any cards even though
> promised.
> 
> Any other countries special call - one merely hopes for a cacrd from
> that station - the one worked, and I fail to understand the German
> logic on this one.
> 
> I have no option but to return them 'NIL'.
> 
> 
> 73 Graham M5AAV
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