[Logic] Pre-printed Cards and QSL Rates

[Jim Brannigan]

All cards go out of here either via the buro or with an SASE (or greenstamp)
to a manager or home address.
DX returns on 2500+ cards are in excess of 95%.  Some may take a year or two
or three....but they show up...
All cards are answered the same way they came in....buro cards go out about
four times a year.

Domestic returns on 200+ cards , mostly 6 Meters, are 50-60%

See anything in the numbers?

Jim
----- Original Message -----
From: "Hank Phillips" <aa4hp@titustek.com>
To: <logic@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, June 15, 2002 13:08
Subject: [Logic] Pre-printed Cards and QSL Rates


> Lads and Lassies,
>
> Nice to see there is so much adrenaline left in the amateur radio
> 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
> thousand at a time, and my return rate still sucks.  I QSL direct for all
> new ones and any time I can get more than two band-modes out of a single
> 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
> into the QSL black hole, the exact location of which is being eagerly
> sought my virtually every DXer.  The remaining quartile of cards are
> returned promptly by very courteous operators.
>
> I have sent XW2A three sets of cards direct, and nada in return.  Every
> time I see him pop up on the cluster in a new country I know I paid for
his
> airline tickets.  Oh well, it is just a hobby, right?
>
> I think the League's logbook of the world project will fix just about
> everything I think is broken as a DXer, except for lids and kids.
>
> 73,
>
> Hank
> AA4HP