Re: [HCDX] VoA QSLing

["Bill Harms" <wharms@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am not an advocate of the E-mail route unless the station insists on it.  As late as  
last year, I had good results (5/5) with receiving snail mail reports to VOA.

Bill Harms
Elkridge, MD

NRD-525 and K9AY

On 4 Dec 2003 at 10:43, Mickey Delmage wrote:

> Greetings!
> 
> In the upcoming QSL column in CIDX Messenger, two different DXers
> report receiving several VoA QSL's and other goodies including mouse
> pads in recent weeks.  They (VoA) seem to get behind, and then all at
> once reply to a back log of reports.  I have noted this trend in the
> last 2-3 years.
> 
> I have had ZERO luck sending e-mail reports to the likes of VoA and
> even Radio Netherlands, who are probably over whelmed with e-mails
> from listeners regarding other questions besides a QSL request. I
> suspect e-mail requests are moved to a file that is rarely looked at. 
> Not that these stations are purposely ignoring e-reports, it is just
> easier to forget about electronic files. As they ?say, out of sight,
> out of mind?. A stack of paper letters is harder to forget about.
> 



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