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Subject:	Re: Return QSL Card Obligations
From:	Jim Shaffer <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	For blind ham radio operators <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Mon, 15 Jun 2015 12:50:15 -0500
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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.
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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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