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| 2025-09-29 06:39:02 | DA1EE@social.darc.de | 10 | Success! | Which?QRZ, LotW, eQSL, Card, Pota, SotaAbandon?E-Mall - As the provider crawl the mail adresses from other Services, to built up theirs. Future of QSL?Hopefully more digital services provide dedicated APIs for other prgrams, as Wavelog. I enjoy both the simplicity of electronic services as well as the personal aspect of paper QSL. I both will be an option on the long run. #HC40S #hamchallenge |
| 2025-09-29 08:09:11 | mischk@bunt.social | 15 | Success! | #HC40S #hamchallengeI’m using paper, email, QRZ.com and now also Clublog and DCL. Maybe I’ll habe a Lotw account someday. I stopped using eqsl.cc beacause the website is a pain.Im a big fan of paper QSL cards, maybe it’s my nostalgia for retro things, but I like the personal touch. Sometimes I even send QSL cards via postal mail with some nice stamps. #amateurradio #qsl |
| 2025-09-29 09:24:19 | dd1mat@mastodon.social | 17 | Working on it... | 52 Week Ham Radio Challenge 2025 - Week 40: Which QSLing methods do you use, physical and electronic?I am a fan of paper QSLs. I like LOTW for digital confirmations. I tried eQSL but stopped (missing acceptance, poor frontend), never had QRZ. I wish LOTW was more open and flexible for further ways of digital confirmations. HC40#hamchallenge |
| 2025-09-29 09:26:19 | dd1mat@mastodon.social | 17 | Success! | HC40S #hamchallenge @hamchallenge |
| 2025-09-30 19:35:47 | ian@mastodon.radio | 36 | Success! | Ham Challenge week 40 is a simple question: What QSL methods do you use? In my case, pretty much all of them! Bureau, direct & all the big online services.That's another set of four, so you can read the full detail of this plus the previous three weeks, on the blog:https://ianrenton.com/blog/52-week-ham-radio-challenge-roundup-weeks-37-40/#HamChallenge HC40S |
| 2025-10-01 18:39:11 | df5go@radiosocial.de | 23 | Success! | Traditional QSL: I prefer sending QSL cards via the bureau and send only very rarely cards directly. It is one importing reasing why I am member of the national amateur radio society.Electronic QSL: I upload my logs regularly to Clublog and to SOTA & POTA, if applicable. I don't use eQSL anymore as its website is just 🤡 . I still have to setup LOTW...#HamChallenge #HC40S #hamradio #amateurradio #Amateurfunk |
| 2025-10-01 18:46:11 | g7kse@mastodon.radio | 35 | Success! | For HC40S I mostly don't QSL. I think I should do more of it with proper cards rather than electronic. To do that I probably need more / better QSO's and to pay something to the RSGB QSL sorting office. I'm not a member so presume I have to pay for the service.I got a QSL with some money in it once. I sent that back as if felt wrong. It was a pleasure to get the card rather than it being a burden that needed to be paid for.Electronic doesn't really do it for me. |
| 2025-10-04 23:02:45 | ei7ijb@mastodon.radio | 9 | Working on it... | For the 40th challenge, 'Which QSLing methods do you use, physical and electronic?’, I have not started to send or submit any QSLs. I do remember that I started in this radio journey when I found an incredible QSL card on the internet and found that these cards are collected. That is right - ‘Collecting QSL Cards ... gotta have them all’ !! #hamchallenge HC40 @hamchallenge |
| 2025-10-04 23:59:51 | DL6PL@social.darc.de | 9 | Success! | I send physical QSL cards via bureau only, because I don't want to publish my address online. But OPs may ask for my address privately, if they want to QSL directly.Otherwise, I only use LoTW as a method for digital QSL, because – afaik – it is the only type of digital QSL that is accepted by most awards. Random JPEGs via e-mail feel pretty pointless to be fair.#hamchallenge #HC40S @hamchallenge |
| 2025-10-05 20:45:02 | siwli@toot.berlin | 20 | Success! | I love paper QSL cards! While I do understand why people don't send them, I really appreciate those I get an I send them out as well, usually via bureau. I don't use LotW (yet?), and I have an eqsl account I never check. I'm planning to move my digital logging to wavelog this winter and hopefully this will allow for easier integration with digital QSLing services. #hamchallenge HC40S |
| 2025-10-13 14:43:04 | siwli@toot.berlin | 20 | Success! | Challenge for Week 40 was to write a poem on my biggest #hamradio pet peeve.Well, here we go: HC40SThey hear my voice and they rejoice"Oh, a YL!", they shout but I'd rather not stand out or at least have the choice.Disclaimers:- I'm bad at poems. Always have been - that's why I'm an engineer, not a poet- Yes, it's nice to feel welcome. But it's also tiring to stick out all the time. Not going to discuss this (did that in a blog post some time ago already). |