[HCDX] QSL-ing

["bjorn fransson" <bjornfransson@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi DX-Friends/Hi Andy,
What is right and what is wrong? Who is right and who is wrong? Who can tell 
in this DX-world of ours? I am not a judge and I would never even try to act 
as one. What I can do as an active DX-er is to express my opinion.
Many DX-ers are nowadays able to travel around the world. With our genuine 
interest in radio and broadcasting it is very natural also to visit local 
radio stations in places we go to. Of course it is even more interesting and 
fascinating to visit stations that you have really heard or in other ways 
have been in touch with. I have done it myself many times and I have really 
enjoyed the visits and the great hospitality I have mostly been given.
I can?t see that there is anything wrong in also bringing copies of 
reception reports that I have sent to the station and which haven?t been 
replied to. I can even understand when a travelling DX-er bring fellow 
DX-ers? not-replied-to copies of reports to the station he has planned to 
visit.
But where is the limit of getting these desirable QSL confirmations? Are 
there any limits, but the DX-ers? own conscience? Are you the proxy of the 
station because you have got some signed QSL confirmations?
I am fully aware of that many of my own QSL?s are not really confirmations, 
meaning that they are checked and found correct in details. Many of them are 
just a polite gesture from the station to thank you for the correspondence 
and interest. I have visited many stations and have understood that the 
programme details we DX-ers think are a kind of evidence of our listening 
have nothing to do with the reality at the station. Many stations have no 
records of music played and no long time programme schedules with details 
included. Maybe an evidence might be an advert, where the station staff 
recognise a company that they use to have adverts from? Another evidence 
might be a producer?s name, a DJ?s name or other obvious details.
Are you able to check such details in your home? Are you able to check any 
accuracy of the inquiries you get from DX-friends? How do you pick out the 
lucky winners of the limited QSL stock you have? First to the mall or??
Conclusions:
1. You decide yourself if it?s OK for you to get a QSL by visiting a 
station.
2. I have an own opinion about the limit of moral concept of getting wanted 
QSL?s. If others have other opinions it?s no problem for me. It?s your own 
conscience that forms your decision about what is right or wrong in QSL-ing 
stations (except if you participate in a competition, where there are given 
certain competition rules, of course).
3. I still think that you did this just because you are a kind and service 
minded person and nothing else.
4. I have no interest nor intention to discuss this matter in public any 
more.
73 from Björn Fransson, the island of Gotland, Sweden





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