Posted: 4/8/2014 2:49:32 PM EDT
| Is it improper/bad form to QSL via multiple methods. For the life of me I can't get LotW to work, but I am using eQSL, QRZ, and putting together some cards. Is it bad form to send a physical card to someone who you also request an eQSL/QRZ from, (supposing that they say on QRZ that that do direct QSL). |
I handle it just like Brundoggie & raysheen pretty much. I have at least one card from every state now. Was well worth the postage cost to me. I dropped some money on the global forever stamps & have several DX cards now. I sent 45 cards out via the buro 4 months ago. If you are an ARRL member, you can use that service. Time will tell if that $5 bares any fruit. 
|
|
Quoted:
I handle it just like Brundoggie & raysheen pretty much. I have at least one card from every state now. Was well worth the postage cost to me. I dropped some money on the global forever stamps & have several DX cards now. I sent 45 cards out via the buro 4 months ago. If you are an ARRL member, you can use that service. Time will tell if that $5 bares any fruit. How old are you? |
|
Quoted:
How old are you? Quoted:
Quoted:
I handle it just like Brundoggie & raysheen pretty much. I have at least one card from every state now. Was well worth the postage cost to me. I dropped some money on the global forever stamps & have several DX cards now. I sent 45 cards out via the buro 4 months ago. If you are an ARRL member, you can use that service. Time will tell if that $5 bares any fruit. How old are you? You aren't suggesting that poor HogSniper will die before he sees anything back from the bureau are you?! 
|
|
Quoted:
You aren't suggesting that poor HogSniper will die before he sees anything back from the bureau are you?!
Quoted:
Quoted:
Quoted:
I handle it just like Brundoggie & raysheen pretty much. I have at least one card from every state now. Was well worth the postage cost to me. I dropped some money on the global forever stamps & have several DX cards now. I sent 45 cards out via the buro 4 months ago. If you are an ARRL member, you can use that service. Time will tell if that $5 bares any fruit. How old are you? You aren't suggesting that poor HogSniper will die before he sees anything back from the bureau are you?!
No. If he is still in his twenties and lives to a ripe old age he ought to get a few replies. I talked with another ham a few months ago that just got a QSL card via the bureau that was 17 years old! HankEllis says he sends his bureau cards out every 6 months. He's most likely one of the faster ones. |
|
Quoted:
HankEllis says he sends his bureau cards out every 6 months. He's most likely one of the faster ones. The bureau is my last ditch effort to QSL. Slow is an understatement. Figure on 18 month turnaround between sending your card out and getting one back, if everything goes right, and if the guy on the other end isn't like me and waits six months to a year to return. Only thing the bureau brings to the table today is the relatively low cost compared to QSL direct. To answer the OP. Going multiple QSL routes isn't a bad thing. For example I worked the XR0ZR DXpedition to Juan Fernandez Is last November. Their LoTW QSLs showed up in February. However it was a new entity for me and I want at least one card from each entity I work. So I ordered a card through the Clublog OQRS. Could have just as easily sent a card direct and the result would have been the same. Card showed up in the mail this week. My opinion is that the only electronic QSL that matters is LoTW. Do what you can to make it work. Post the problems and we'll see what the issue is. Yeah I upload to eQSL but it's only to keep the EU bunch happy. If the QSL I want doesn't do LoTW then paper direct is the next choice. Here you can go broke in a hurry. Between postage, cards, and printing figure on the same as shooting 50bmg, $4 a shot. And every so often a shot will be scored a miss. Paper direct to some SA countries is sketchy. I've had better luck getting cards from Cuba than from Chile. But if it's the only way to get a QSL you have to send one downrange. |
|
Quoted:
I'm 1/2 century old now. I have another batch of buro cards I plan to send out soon. Then I'll play the waiting game. I figure when & if they ever do come , it will be a nice surprise. Fifty!! You ought to be ashamed of yourself! When I was your age, I was sixty-two! That is about how old you will be when the last of the QSL cards from that bureau batch arrives. |
|
Quoted:
Fifty!! You ought to be ashamed of yourself! When I was your age, I was sixty-two! That is about how old you will be when the last of the QSL cards from that bureau batch arrives. Quoted:
Quoted:
I'm 1/2 century old now. I have another batch of buro cards I plan to send out soon. Then I'll play the waiting game. I figure when & if they ever do come , it will be a nice surprise. Fifty!! You ought to be ashamed of yourself! When I was your age, I was sixty-two! That is about how old you will be when the last of the QSL cards from that bureau batch arrives.  50 is the new 30 right? I keep telling myself that, but my body says different.
|