Re: [IRCA] [Amdx] Verifyin' the toughies, 1934 style

[Russ Edmunds <wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxx>]

With that exact approach, one has to wonder how the return per centages were as good as they reportedly were. Or maybe that's why.

Back when I was verifying receptions I rarely sent follow-ups that soon and was certainly not taking an almost threatening tone. The idea of writing the the CoC is actually appalling. 

I have known DX'ers who believed that they were entitled to a specific reply, but my feeling always was that stations were going above and beyond to send any kind of a QSL.


Russ Edmunds
15 mi NNW of Philadelphia  
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--- On Tue, 12/20/11, Steve Francis <amdxmail@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Steve Francis <amdxmail@xxxxxxx>
> Subject: [Amdx] Verifyin' the toughies, 1934 style
> To: amdx@xxxxxxxxxx, irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, am@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Tuesday, December 20, 2011, 9:59 PM
> 
> 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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