[Dx-qsl] LOTW vs paper QSL's

[RAY FRIESS]

If one only interested in record keeping for awards, my opinion is that LOTW is fine.
However, I reflect back on my beginning days as a Novice some 40 years ago.  One of the sources of pride
as a young Novice and General was getting those pasteboards in the mail box and then putting them up on
the wall where fellow hams could see them when they visited, and being able to sit back in the shack chair
while listening to a qso, gazing over the wall of cards and remembering the excitement of snagging some of
those contacts hanging on the wall.
 
So ... call me  sentimental fool ...   HI HI.
 
Ray  wa7itz
 
> From: kenshep at one.net
> To: DX-QSL at mailman.qth.net
> Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 11:52:45 -0400
> Subject: [Dx-qsl] LOTW vs paper QSL's
> 
> I'm sorry gentlemen, I didn't mean to start a firestorm of evaluating one form versus the other. This was merely an opinion of a non-LOTW participant who sees a trend. There were many points on both sides of the aisle, and although I am not condemning LOTW at all, I suppose in my own fashion, I like to see that final acknowledgement of a QSO in my hand, glossy or plain (I have both hanging on the wall).
> 
> Having done the manual exercises for 5BDXCC and most of the other awards, I certainly can see the benefit to being automated, but I see the downside of everything being automated, with little or no human contact and based upon a $5 fee. 
> I will continue to do paper, and will, over the next few months, go to LOTW myself, just do to stay "in the loop". I suppose it is nice to have all of your band/mode info readily available without digging through boxes, but I kinda like stirring up that dust.
> 
> Once again, IMHO
> 73 to all and thanks for your MANY MANY emails
> Ken 
> WA8JOC
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