I return them if requested/SASE is sent usually but more so if it's really a
tough contact to make. I really don't have the money to keep QSL cards on
hand or the time between my sighted wife and myself with a busy family life
to make out the printed portions.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Behler" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, June 15, 2015 2:06 PM
Subject: Re: Return QSL Card Obligations
> Jim:
>
> Well, this is somewhat refreshing to hear.
>
> I think we all try to do what is right, and like you, if someone directly
> asks me for a card, or sends me one with a SASE and a clear request to
> return QSL, I do so.
>
> But I have received so many unsolicited cards over the past number of
> years
> that I'm finding it impossible to keep up.
>
> Add to this that at least some degree of sighted assistance is required to
> return printed cards, and it gets unmanageable.
>
> Anyway, I'll certainly be interested to hear what others have to say on
> the
> topic, and will respond additionally if I think I have something else
> meaningful to add.
>
> Tom Behler: KB8TYJ
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> On Behalf Of Jim Shaffer
> Sent: Monday, June 15, 2015 1:50 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Return QSL Card Obligations
>
> My thoughts on this are that I'm under no obligation to return a QSL card
> unless I ask for a card, or offer to return one. In fact, if asked on the
> air, I inform the other station that I don't even have any cards, which is
> currently true. When I took my amateur tests, I didn't sign up to be a
> corresponding secretary, grin.
> --
> Jim, ke5al
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Behler
> Sent: Monday, June 15, 2015 11:41 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Return QSL Card Obligations
>
> Hello, everyone.
>
>
>
> I realize that I'm bringing up a topic here on which there will be many
> differing opinions, but it is becoming an increasing problem for me, and I
> suspect I'm not alone.
>
>
>
> The problem is with printed QSL cards, and the extent one should feel
> obligated to reciprocate with a return QSL.
>
>
>
> Back in the day, I was actually pretty good at return QSLing, although I'm
> sure some of the cards I received slipped through the cracks.
>
>
>
> Even today, I'm good at return QSLing for cards that I receive for which
> I'm
> directly asked to return qsl.
>
>
>
> However, in recent years, I have gotten many qsl cards (including quite a
> few from the buro) on which there is no indication that a return qsl is
> needed. Of course, the polite thing to do would be to send return qsls,
> and
> I even have a QSL template in Microsoft Word format that I can use. But
> that requires sighted assistance for printing and such that is just not as
> available to me as used to be the case.
>
>
>
> One of these days, I intend to get fully up and running on LOTW, and my
> hope
> is that electronic QSLing will solve some of this issue, but for now, I'm
> not exactly sure when that will happen, due to the many other projects I
> have on my plate which must take precedence.
>
>
>
> To be honest, I'm feeling somewhat guilty about not return QSLing for the
> many cards I have now received, which is why I'm writing this e-mail. I
> just wonder what others have done over the years.
>
>
>
> Tom Behler: KB8TYJ
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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