[Elecraft] QSLs

[Bill Rowlett]

If all you want is a contact confirmation in the ARRL data base to be used for an award from ARRL, than by all means use LOTW.

LOTW is not “the last courtesy of a QSO is a QSL.” A QSL which can be held in you hand, can bring back a memory about the QSO, that is the last courtesy of the QSO, not some data in a data bank somewhere.

As for me, all CARDS go by the buro, state side manager with SASE, or direct with SASE. 

Back in my hole now

Bill  KC4ATU


> On Jul 25, 2016, at 4:07 PM, Vic Rosenthal 4X6GP <k2vco.vic at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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
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