Re: [HCDX]: Fw: [AmFmTvDx] TV QSL Requests

["Craig Seufert" <craigseuf@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have had complete success with TV QSL'ing, 100% reply rate. Whenever I 
get a TV skip opening and a watchable picture, I videotape it at the 
slowest (6 hour) speed. This way I can replay the tape in slo-mo and 
pause it if I have to. When sending the reception report, I give a 
wriiten summary of about 1/2 hour, listing everything-especially the 
commercials. When the station can check my report against the station 
log, that's good enough for them. I'm in New Hampshire and my farthest 
TV QSL is from Sioux City Iowa.


From: "ppp: Piet.Pypers@xxxxxxxxxx" <Piet.Pypers@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <hard-core-dx@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [HCDX]: Fw: [AmFmTvDx] TV QSL Requests
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 16:41:13 +0100
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> Van: Michael J. Condon <michael.condon@xxxxxxxx>
> > Datum: vrijdag 20 maart 1998 14:50
> 
> Jim Hermanson and other DXers who work for TV Stations weather in
> engineering or other departments, what are your thoughts on this 
subject
> as I am going to relate it ??
> 
> Robert Ross and all other TV DXers please take a moment to respond to
> this question.    It is of great interest to me and I will bet other
> DXers.
> 
> I have noticed that some of us are posting answers from TV Stations in
> response to QSL requests made to them
> 
> Please take a moment here to explain how you are reporting to the
> stations.  What does your DX report consist of and look like and here 
is
> the most important question to me, what percentage of stations 
quarried
> are responding ??  How many repeat requests do you have to send before
> you do get an answer.
> 
> I began DXing over thirty years ago and had experience sending QSL
> requests to radio stations, CBers, and Ham Operators.  95% of Radio
> Stations, 60% of Hams, 30% of CBers would answer the quarries.  I 
visited
> a TV DXer in South Bend IN who turned me on to TV DXing and I was so
> surprised to see that they not only answered QSL requests, but they 
also
> had QSL Cards.  I built my system in Chicago and started sending
> postcards with my data.  Poor response from them, mostly disbelief.  I
> then got the idea to staple an extra polaroid picture.  That did it.  
The
> response was an immediate 99.5% and it stayed that way until the 
advent
> of the 90s.  I cannot understand what is happening now.  The response 
it
> terrible these days.  The last 20 quarries have netted only two 
answers. 
> I used to get shirts, tie pins, umbrellas, hats, frisbees, cards, maps 
,
> letters, pictures, and requests for follow up reports.  Several 
stations
> have offered invitations to come visit.  Arturo Mignon at XEW TV 2 in
> Mexico City Mexico offered to bring me in helicopter from Mexico City
> Airport to the top of the Tress Padres Mt to visit the site there if I
> could make the trip.   My report is now computerized with pictures, 
and I
> am told very professional looking.  I make the report very simple and
> friendly.  I ask for a letter, card, map, or any souvenirs of the 
station
> they care to send.  
> 
> Are people too busy in life today to bother with such quarries, or is 
it
> that they are so new to the business that they just don't care about a
> distant viewer ??????
> 
> I consider QSLing the other half of this hobby and it saddens me to 
see
> it evaporate away.
> 
> I can only wonder what others are experiencing out there as well.  Is
> there a need for me to start a support group for rejected DXers ???   
Is
> that where we old timer DXers will end up, in a recovery group ???  
> 
> Hi, Im Mike Rejected DXalcoholic......................

p.s. nicely put by Mike and maybe of interest to the list (ppijpers)
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