Re: [IRCA] WBOB QSL update

["R. Colin Newell" <coffeecanuck@xxxxxxxxx>]

Well said! We do not seem to get more patient as we get older. :-)

It was like, one day I started saying... "Now you kids get off of my lawn!"

:-)

73

On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 5:46 PM, Brandon Jordan <swl.tn.usa@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> *Update from JD Stephens, the DXer who arranged this widely heard test:*
> ------
> I am already receiving word that some of our DXing brethren are complaining
> because the Engineer for the WBOB DX test has not yet responded to their
> e-mail reports.  Folks, it's ONLY BEEN 3 DAYS since the test occurred.
> Please be patient !!
>
> The WBOB Engineer has already e-mailed me and said he will be developing an
> e-QSL (this is the only way he will reply), and will send out these e-QSLs
> once he feels that all e-mail reports have been received.
>
> This kind gentleman has also offered to work with me and arrange some more
> DX tests in the future, but this will not occur if we do not all show a bit
> more courtesy and - again - PATIENCE in waiting for our QSLs.
>
> It pains me to have to send this e-mail, but as the arranger of the test, I
> not only care about how many of our DXers are able to hear any test, but
> also about the courteous broadcast professionals who air these tests out of
> the goodness of their hearts.
>
> 73,
>
> J.D. Stephens
> Hampton Cove, AL
> dx-tips@xxxxxxx
> ------
>
> I do want to add to JD's email that one of my biggest pet peeves on DX
> Tests in the past is that the promised QSL's never arrived. As the IRCA/NRC
> DX Test Coordinator, this is one of my main functions besides communicating
> accurate test info, and one of the main things I wanted to change. Everyone
> who submitted an accurate report will be QSl'd.
> --
> 73,
> Brandon Jordan, KM4PBQ
> Fayette County, TN EM55gc
> http://www.swldx.us
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