[Logic] Pre-printed Cards and QSL Rates

[Carl Smidt]

Right on Hank, I have about 3,000 nice, glossy, commercially printed and =
beautifully designed QSL cards sitting on the shelf, that I don't use =
anymore since I started to run my home designed cards off on my printer, =
using LOGic's report writer.=20

I got no better returns with the commercially printed glossy cards, than =
I now get with my self generated and printed cards using W7NN card =
stock.=20

I have long since stopped wallpapering my shack with cards, did that in =
my teens (50's), the XYL would frown upon that today, enough space being =
taken up with various certificates, paintings, etc.=20

They are now neatly stored in HamStuff by W7NN's indexed card boxes, =
that I got years ago from his predecessor, Mike.

But, OTOH let's not forget, to each his own.

73,   Carl  VE9OV
  ----- Original Message -----=20
  From: Hank Phillips=20
  To: logic@mailman.qth.net=20
  Sent: Saturday, June 15, 2002 2:08 PM
  Subject: [Logic] Pre-printed Cards and QSL Rates


  Lads and Lassies,

  Nice to see there is so much adrenaline left in the amateur radio=20
  community, but I recommend saving some of it for a pileup.

  I have a pretty slick full color card which I buy preprinted about =
three=20
  thousand at a time, and my return rate still sucks.  I QSL direct for =
all=20
  new ones and any time I can get more than two band-modes out of a =
single=20
  card.  Fully half the green stamps I send get returned via the bureau, =

  which is OK with me as long as I get the card.  Twenty five percent =
fall=20
  into the QSL black hole, the exact location of which is being eagerly=20
  sought my virtually every DXer.  The remaining quartile of cards are=20
  returned promptly by very courteous operators.

  I have sent XW2A three sets of cards direct, and nada in return.  =
Every=20
  time I see him pop up on the cluster in a new country I know I paid =
for his=20
  airline tickets.  Oh well, it is just a hobby, right?

  I think the League's logbook of the world project will fix just about=20
  everything I think is broken as a DXer, except for lids and kids.

  73,

  Hank
  AA4HP

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