[DX] eQSL cards - NOW ACCEPTED - for DXCC

Mon, 11 Feb 2002 10:20:17 -0500

Rudi,

You raise a very good point.  Fortunately, there is a simple solution.

N7NG has stated that the DXCC desk will only accept cards "written by
legitimate QSL managers."  So, if you don't wish someone (be it eQSL or
others) to act as your QSL manager, you need only notify them accordingly
with a cc: to the DXCC desk.

Therefore, if you notify eQSL.cc that you do not wish them to offer their
QSL Manager Service (which is what this really is) on your behalf, they
should ethically not do so and not take any funds from anyone who wishes
their card.

Now the argument may be made that by uploading your log(s), or portion
thereof, to the eQSL server, you have de facto authorized them to act as
your manager.  I would accept that logic for log(s) or log extract(s)
uploaded since last Friday, when the new policy was first broadcast.  But
not for log(s) or log extract(s) prior to that.  If this policy change means
a retroactive acceptance, then you may have no choice but to ask for your
logs to be removed (or do it yourself).

I would strongly urge anyone unhappy about this new policy, who like you and
I do not wish someone else to print cards in our names/calls and charge fees
to do so, to write eQSL (I'd say email, but there doesn't seem to be
anyplace on the server to email anyone except the Webmaster, who may or may
not be a principal in running the site) and notify them accordingly.  My
notice is already in the mail.

The shame of it is that this could be a real beneficial service.  I can see
a lot of positive potential from this capability.  Especially if you have a
Special Event or DXpedition station from years back, who's manager wishes to
close the logs rather than deal with the strays still rolling in.  A service
like this could avoid the controversy a few days ago, when it came out that
the W2A QSL manager was declining to pick up cards from the bureau or answer
them as it was too much trouble.  And think of the possible benefits for
having a place to upload the log(s) of a Silent Key, taking an unwanted (on
non-understood) burden from the family or the estate.

I just wish they had been straight from the start about this new service.  I
wish they had just announced "hey, we're now your on-line QSL Manager!"
Instead, by trying to spin this as a "change" in ARRL policy towards eQSLs
(and it isn't a change in policy and they're not eQSLs), they've left a very
bad taste in my mouth, and it continues to make me leary of dealing with
them any more than I have to, now and in the future.

Am I the only one that reads the announcements and promos and hype and spin
on eQSL, and keep thinking of the sleezy used car salesman with slicked-back
hair, mismatched loud clothing, and who won't let you look under the hood of
that cream-puff that "a little old lady from Leningrad" only drove on
Sundays -- just trust him?

73, ron wn3vaw

----- Original Message -----
From: zs6dx <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 3:58 AM
Subject: Re: [DX] eQSL cards - NOW ACCEPTED - for DXCC

Hi all !

Well all I can say is that I will be VERY upset if I find out eQSL.cc are
sending out cards on my behalf !!!. They better make sure they get a
signature from any station they send cards out on behalf of.

When they started I was very interested and even uploaded some contacts but
I then realized that it was NOGO !. After thinking about it I also decided
that I enjoy printed QSL cards so much that I would hate to lose them !

So, long may normal QSL cards live !

Good DX to all !
So long and thanks for all the fish, oops I mean cards :-)
73, Rudi de ZS6DX/V51VE

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