[Dx-qsl] German QSL Policy

[Graham Ridgeway]

On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 11:01:20 +0000, Christian Buenger
<c.buenger at gmx.ch> wrote:

>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.
>

Thanks Christian.

All noted - I am not at all surprised regarding the '2006' QSL's -
when I saw the sheer volume of contacts made, and knowing they were
intending to QSL via the Buro - it was failry clear that they would
take a long time <smile>
My only comment on these is about how many '2006 cards' will be
unwanted and never reach their intended destination.

I am the RSGB Sub Manager for the M5 series of calls and less than
half of those have envelopes lodged with me. I know that other groups
of UK callsigns are in a similar situation. And that is going to be a
terrible waste of paper - not counting the poor HQ Buro staff who will
be engulfed by a somewhat large volume of [extra] work.

Having said that - I am certainly looking forward to receiving mine.
[all 30+ of them !!]


73 Graham M5AAV