[Dx-qsl] QSL Etiquette

[Dick Flanagan]

I started to become active in RTTY contesting last year and am now 
starting to receive hundreds of unsolicited bureau QSL cards for those 
contacts.  I would say that about two-thirds of them specifically state 
"PSE QSL" which I am more than happy to do, but how should I handle 
those that simply say "TNX NICE QSO" or simply contain nothing other 
than the QSO data?

Part of me wants to think that they wouldn't have gone to the trouble of 
sending me a card if they didn't want one in return, but is that a valid 
assumption?  Would it be rude of me to not return a card without an 
explicit "PSE QSL?"  The time and cost to me of a bureau return is 
negligible, but is it naive of me to think that every unsolicited QSL is 
a request for mine??

I want to do the right thing, but I'm not always sure what that is.

Dick

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Dick Flanagan K7VC
dick at k7vc.com