[Elecraft] QSLs
Wes Stewart
wes_n7ws at triconet.org
Mon Jul 25 17:37:56 EDT 2016
Agreed.
On 7/25/2016 11:49 AM, 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
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