[Elecraft] QSLs

[Vic Rosenthal 4X6GP]

I couldn't agree with Jim more!

I love LOTW and wish everyone would use it.

It's not just the cost of postage for the cards themselves. I am trying 
to increase my DXCC total and submitting confirmations by LOTW is so 
much easier than getting cards checked by the /one/ guy in the country 
who can do it, or mailing them to the ARRL in the USA and hoping that 
our troubled postal service will get them there and back.

73,
Vic, 4X6GP
Rehovot, Israel
Formerly K2VCO
http://www.qsl.net/k2vco/

On 25 Jul 2016 21:49, Jim Brown wrote:
> On Mon,7/25/2016 11:34 AM, stan levandowski wrote:
>> On my QRZ page it says "No LoTW, no eQSL and no Buro."
>
> That may be your preference, but it causes everyone who wants a
> confirmation from you to spend money with the postal system. When we
> were kids, it cost a penny or two to send a QSL. Now, including the cost
> of printing a card, it costs someone who wants your card more than $1
> round trip (.49 each way) in the US, more than $2 between US and Canada,
> average $3.50 to/from other countries.
>
> LOTW and eQSL are FREE and easy to use if you're using almost any of the
> popular logging software. Putting our logs on LOTW is the considerate
> thing to do. It's the RIGHT thing to do. It's the modern equivalent of
> what we said in the '50s -- "the last courtesy of a QSO is a QSL." Now,
> the last courtesy of a QSO is an upload to LOTW.
>
> 73, Jim K9YC