[QSL-Managers] being a sneak

[Zoli Pitman HA1AG]

Hello Derek,

> I have two different cases of someone
> making consecutive QSOs with two calls, both of which belong to them
> but which are from different countries.

I would just use common sense. If as you said the time difference is only a
few minutes while the distance between those locations are thousands of
kilometres, I would just refuse to QSL.

> I've also had several cards from one country in the same envelope,
> from different calls, all written in the same hand and all with the
> time wrong by an hour.   Almost certainly the different Qs were all
> made by one person.

This situation is not that obvious like the previous. I can give you two
examples from my own experience: My father and I had the same station (or I
should rather say I was allowed to use his station hi!) for years. When one
of us found and worked a DX the other jumped in and worked it too. When the
direct QSL request was about to be sent and one of us was not there, the
other wrote out the QSL and mailed out the QSL. The other example I can give
is very typical to Eastern EU countries where clubstations play a central
role. Many hams have no station at home and they often operate from
clubstations using their own call. My club-mates and I often worked DX's one
after the other on Friday evenings when our local meeting in the club took
place. We usually shared mailing costs, too and the cards of two-three guys
were sent together.

A sort of abuse of the club system is the one-person clubs. I know hams who
work the DX with their own calls and a "clubcall", which is only used by
them. I think working the DX multiple times gives them multiple
satisfaction...

Make the long story short, I wouldn't care about this one. I'd leave it to
the person who applied for those cards to decide what that piece of paper is
worth for.

73 de Zoli HA1AG