[SFDXA] QSL WATCH

[Bill]

 From Tony N2MFT

Press release :
Hi all
We, Freddy J28RO (_http://j28ro.blogspot.com_ 
(http://j28ro.blogspot.com/)) and Yan XV4Y (_http://xv4y.radioclub.asia_ 
(http://xv4y.radioclub.asia/)) are glad to announce you the launch of a 
new website that we are  wishing will offer a new kind of service to the 
internation radioamateurs  community and the Dxers.

http://www.QSLWatch.com

Some months ago, we share an idea about making a website where should be 
published not the QSL routing informations (many websites already serve 
well this purpose) but informations about the
quality of QSL answers from OM or QSL Managers.

It is true that during last decade with the increasing number of 
Mega-DXpeditions, some OM (a minority) thought they could find in QSL 
cards a way to finance their projects. We both agree that this is 
getting significantly  far from the HAM spirit, since as we do 
understand one OM or a group of OM don't  like to loose money answering 
QSL cards (2$ per QSL sent multiplied by tens of  thousands of QSO 
quickly make a huge amount of money), we think that earning  money with 
this is another story.

What makes us feel better is that many major expeditions (4W6A, T32C, 
VP6T and many more) have confirmed their QSO through Logbook of the 
World in a matter of weeks if not hours!

QSLWatch.com <http://www.QSLWatch.com>  is fairly simple.

You tell from what station or QSL manager you received a card, you give 
it a mark and you add a comment if you want it. The technical 
infrastructure is simple and is already working for a couple of weeks, 
but spare time has been missing to Freddy and me in order to put all our 
QSL infos in the database. As time is running we would like to share  
this idea with you anyway. We hope you will help us to make this website 
better sharing your QSLing experiences.

Wishing you all the best, Good DX and  happy QSLing!
Fredy and Yan.