[QSL-Announce] My QSL Service

[w4sco at sco-inc.org]

WHY?  i have made a system for hams worldwide who want to exchange qsl
cards with each other. Maybe they don't care about the ARRL? In just one
day more than 80 hams worldwide have signed up and the list is growing
daily. Hams like my concept and it looks like many many of them have
decided that the time is right. Especially now with high gas and food
prices and postage rates going higher all the time. Many hams will not
now send a card unless you send them money to do so. Then you must wait
months and even years to see if you finally get one before they become a
SK. i don't want to wait any longer. This is the 21st Century and its
about time for a modern solution to this problem.

I too have used eQSL partly because i prefer to have a printed card
(which LOTW does not provide). And mostly because LOTW is so very
difficult to use. I have heard hams at our hamfest this month tell me
that they hate it and will never use it. A LOTW guru at the ARRL told me
that they have higher security requirements than do banks moving my
money. I thought it was a joke but he replied that he was serious.
Someone over at the ARRL has an ego problem if they think it is
unreasonable to expect the LOTW program to be no more difficult for the
user to use than for them to move money via Western Union.


> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [QSL-Announce] My QSL Service
> From: dave <wpaper at sbcglobal.net>
> Date: Mon, November 26, 2007 3:14 pm
> To: Anything to do with QSL cards and QSLing
> <qsl-announce at mailman.qth.net>
> 
> Les;
> 
> Have you checked with the ARRL to see if they will accept those cards..
> 
> It would be a super service if they would. I think there might be a 
> problem with that  for two reasons; 1. the League is pushing the LoTW 
> program almost to the point of fanaticism and 2. eQSL has a similar 
> structure which the League will not accept for reasons of "security". 
> Everyone, it seems to the outsider, is a considered a potential 
> "cheater" in the DXCC program; hence the need for the League or one of 
> its accredited checkers to personally check everyone's cards submitted 
> outside LoTW.
> 
> Dave, W5WP
> 
> BTW: I too have the Millennium award. Worked it with my old 
> Hallicrafters "Hurricane".
> 
> w4sco at sco-inc.org wrote:
> 
> >Fellow hams,
> >
> >I have a new qsl service that i hope you will look at and adopt. I made
> >my DXCC Millenium award in 2000 because I did not need to wait for my
> >cards to show that i had worked at least 100 countries. I am still
> >waiting today for many of those cards so I can apply for the "normal"
> >DXCC award.
> >
> >The rise in postage prices means that now it cost me almost $1 to send
> >out a qsl card to a foreign country on the DXCC list. I usually include
> >$1-2 dollars cash (with each card) to help the foreign ham pay his
> >postage to me. After i do all that i must wait months or even years for
> >my card in the mail.
> >
> >I thought of a better way that is faster and much less expensive. It
> >uses the internet. First i fill out my outgoing qsl card, then I scan it
> >as a jpg file. Next I upload it to my new qsl service at
> >http://myqsl.cc. When I upload the file i tell the system the Callsign
> >of the recipient, for each card. When the recipient logs on (provided
> >they are registered with the system) they are told and shown if they
> >have any qsl cards waiting for them in their folder. If they do they can
> >look at them but must pay me $4.95 per year if they wish to download any
> >of them. After they download their cards they then can print them out on
> >their own local inkjet printer on card stock.
> >
> >Most hams today (and in the future) will have an inkjet printer and many
> >of those also have a scanning capability.
> >
> >This idea is no different than if you prepare a card at your qth...
> >Print it out on your printer, fill in the other ham's qso details, then
> >put that card into an envelope and post it to them. Or you use a card
> >prepared for you at a printer then add your qso details and mail it. The
> >only difference with my system is that you prepare your outgoing cards
> >but instead of putting them into envelopes, you scan them as jpg files
> >and upload them to my system. There the other ham downloads your "cards"
> >and prints them on their printer (instead of on your printer). We merely
> >substituted ourselves for the post office in delivering the cards for
> >you.
> >
> >Try my new QSL service at http://myqsl.cc and let me know how you like
> >it. There is no charge to upload cards or to "view" cards waiting for
> >you.
> >
> >Les W4SCO
> >www.scoincsoftware.com
> >
> >
> >
> >
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