Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] Verifyin' the toughies, 1934 style

["Jim Renfrew" <jrenfrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I once wrote to my Congresswoman to obtain an AFRTS QSL.  It worked.  Not quite a cabinet secretary!  Jim
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Steve Francis 
  To: amdx@xxxxxxxxxx ; irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ; am@xxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2011 9:59 PM
  Subject: [NRC-AM] Verifyin' the toughies, 1934 style


  Radex Magazine, January 1934        courtesy of davidgleason.com


  Excerpt from article "Proper Reports Bring Verifications", by Alfred W. Oppel, Executive Secretary, Newark News Radio Club   


  "Even so, there are times when stations will not answer, even if the above procedure has been followed carefully.  The writer usually allows the station thirty days in which to answer and, if no reply is forthcoming within that period, we generally drop them a postcard and point out that, regardless of existing conditions at the station, we are entitled to the courtesy of an answer.  Of course, there are some stations which won't answer a gentle hint like that and then there is only one remaining recourse.

  Write to the Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce in which the station is located.  Point out the prestige given the town by the radio station.  Tell how they have ignored all your requests for a verification, despite your polite letters, your reminder and the return postage.  Stress the civic pride involved and, in the majority of instances, the Secretary will inveigle the station into answering you when other methods had failed.


   ... When writing to a station owned and operated by a college, it is well to address your report in care of "The Registrar."   That will often bring an answer where other methods would not."  


  Steve Francis
  Alcoa, Tennessee


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