[Dx-qsl] Never give up!

[Callaway Ed-eaim148]

In addition to the reasons cited by others, another reason is club
stations.  In addition to changes in membership, interest in a
particular QSL can vary with changes in awards programs over the years.


In the past, the Motorola Amateur Radio Club (W4MOT) concentrated on
DXCC alone.  Now that we're reaching the point where months go by
between new entities, the club is taking an interest in IOTA, just to
keep our activity going.  Previously, for example, a missing European
IOTA card was no big deal, since we had its DXCC entity confirmed and
credited.  Now, however, we care -- and, since the club has been on the
air since 1973, there are a number of such cases we're tracking down.

Additionally, the creation of the DX Challenge award has created
substantial value for band-entity combination QSLs where before there
was little or none. 

I respectfully request that you invest in an email to N2OO concerning
your DX logs "that will soon go away."  Look at it this way:  If you
close the logs, all roads to QSLs will end with you, and you'll be
pestered in perpetuity by QSL seekers to whom you'll have to send bad
news.  If you send the logs to the QSL Manager's Society, however, QSL
manager databases will be updated with the new manager, so you'll be
bothered less -- and, if you do get a wayward query, you can just send a
pointer to the correct manager.  It's better for you, too.

Ed Callaway, N4II
President, Motorola ARC W4MOT

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Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 11:09:04 -0800
From: Ron Lago <ac7dx at comcast.net>
Subject: Re: [Dx-qsl] Never give up!
To: Callaway Ed-eaim148 <Ed.Callaway at motorola.com>
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If they wait more than 10 years, I would assume they didnt want the card
that bad. I have 15 different logs that will soon go away. They were
from the 70's and 80's.
Ron