SWL

摘要

David Borne, G4CYW, the RSGB QSL Bureau sub-manager for SWLs, was prompted to contact me as, in a recent batch of SWL cards that were sent to him for distribution, he received quite a few that were returned from GB stations stamped "Not Required". In addition, there were a number of cards that had obviously not reached their destination because the organiser of the special event station had clearly failed to deposit envelopes with the respective Society special event QSL Manager. For each special event station, the organiser should nomi-nate a QSLmanager who should ensure that SASEs are deposited with the correct RSGB special event QSL bureau manager [Michael Evans, MWOCNA, for GBxAAA-GBxMZZ stations, or Graham Ridgeway, G8UYD, for GBxNAA-GBxZZZ stations - Ed]. I am unhappy at GB stations indicating that they do not "require" SWL cards. I accept that the reports may not be particularly useful - especially if they report on QSOs made on 7MHz when the special event station has worked a couple of hundred stations around Britain during theevent. However, if the event was a 'special' event, SWLs should not be precluded from sharing in it. If special QSL cards are printed, organisers should always assume that they are going to receive 20 SWL reports, and should plan to have a sufficient number printed to cater for licensed and SWL requests.