So, someone with a callsign similar to mine* has been operating from
various Caribbean QTHs on and off for quite a few years.

As you might guess, I occasionally get QSL cards for Caribbean
operations. Wish I'd spent February on Bonaire, but I was freezing up
here in Tennessee...

I guess I see several possible ways to dispose of these cards, some more
ethical than others:

- Forward them to Jim.

- Return them to the sender with a note "Sorry, I've never operated from
Bonaire".

- Return them to the sender with a note "Sorry, I've never operated from
Bonaire - I think you worked someone else with a similar callsign." - but
not tell them what that similar callsign is.

- Return them to the sender with a note "Sorry, I've never operated from
Bonaire - " and tell them who I think they worked.

- Throw them out.

- QSL the "contact" with one of my cards with "PJ2/" written on it. (uh,
yeah...)



I've been doing #1, but on further thought that really doesn't make much
sense either. What do you think?

--
Doug Smith W9WI
Pleasant View (Nashville), TN EM66

* you can probably guess who!

"Doug Smith" wrote in message
m...
So, someone with a callsign similar to mine* has been operating from
various Caribbean QTHs on and off for quite a few years.

As you might guess, I occasionally get QSL cards for Caribbean
operations. Wish I'd spent February on Bonaire, but I was freezing up
here in Tennessee...

I guess I see several possible ways to dispose of these cards, some more
ethical than others:

- Forward them to Jim.

- Return them to the sender with a note "Sorry, I've never operated from
Bonaire".

- Return them to the sender with a note "Sorry, I've never operated from
Bonaire - I think you worked someone else with a similar callsign." - but
not tell them what that similar callsign is.

- Return them to the sender with a note "Sorry, I've never operated from
Bonaire - " and tell them who I think they worked.


Personally I think this is the best one. It's what I would do and would
want others to do if I miscopied a calll. Kind of like the Goldern Rule:
Do unto others as you would have the do unto you. The next best thing is
forwarding them to Jim except that it might not be him either. So you
really should return them to the sender.

Dee, N8UZE

"Doug Smith" wrote in message
m...
So, someone with a callsign similar to mine* has been operating from
various Caribbean QTHs on and off for quite a few years.

As you might guess, I occasionally get QSL cards for Caribbean
operations. Wish I'd spent February on Bonaire, but I was freezing up
here in Tennessee...

I've been doing #1, but on further thought that really doesn't make much
sense either. What do you think?

--
Doug Smith W9WI
Pleasant View (Nashville), TN EM66

PJ2 = Curacao. PJ4 = Bonaire.

Return the card in the SASE, (or in the SAE if sufficient postage
money or IRC is included) if there is one, with the note that you
don't operate from Curacao.

If they mis-copied the callsign, they don't have a valid QSO. No
point in sending it the Jim. He'll just do the same, and one of you
is out postage. If you return it in the SASE, neither of you is
spending his own money to return the card.

If there is no SASE, throw out the card.

Then, next year, come down and join us!


73, Jeff K8ND (sometimes PJ2/K8ND)

Station Manager, PJ2T
Caribbean Contesting Consortium
www.pj2t.org








* you can probably guess who!

Jeff Maass wrote:
"Doug Smith" wrote in message
m...
So, someone with a callsign similar to mine* has been operating from
various Caribbean QTHs on and off for quite a few years.

As you might guess, I occasionally get QSL cards for Caribbean
operations. Wish I'd spent February on Bonaire, but I was freezing up
here in Tennessee...

I've been doing #1, but on further thought that really doesn't make much
sense either. What do you think?

--
Doug Smith W9WI
Pleasant View (Nashville), TN EM66

PJ2 = Curacao. PJ4 = Bonaire.

(it'd be a lot easier to keep 'em straight if they'd do PJ1=Aruba (I
guess P41 these days), PJ2=Bonaire, PJ3=Curacao. Keep 'em in order!)

Return the card in the SASE, (or in the SAE if sufficient postage
money or IRC is included) if there is one, with the note that you
don't operate from Curacao.

If they mis-copied the callsign, they don't have a valid QSO. No
point in sending it the Jim. He'll just do the same, and one of you
is out postage. If you return it in the SASE, neither of you is
spending his own money to return the card.

Yeah, that's what I've been beginning to think.

If there is no SASE, throw out the card.

Then, next year, come down and join us!

Now that would really throw a spanner in the works -- PJ2/WI9WI and
PJ2/W9WI on at the same time??!!

--
Doug Smith W9WI
Pleasant View, TN EM66

Well, something completely new happened today... Got a PSE QSL card,
mailed direct with SASE from St. Petersburg, Russia. Sent to my
address, but specified the correct /WI9WI callsign.

--

Doug Smith W9WI
Pleasant View, TN EM66

Return the card in the SASE, (or in the SAE if sufficient postage
money or IRC is included) if there is one, with the note that you
don't operate from Curacao.

I like this option also. The operator doesn't sit there waiting for a
card which will never come, and he can start hunting PJ2 for his DXCC.

(I'd go a bit further, and send it back even if it came without SASE,
but I recognize that some may be on a tighter budget than me.)

73, de Hans, K0HB/W7

On Mar 28, 10:28*pm, sorry-spammers ""w9wi\"@(sorry-spammers)"
wrote:
Well, something completely new happened today... *Got a PSE QSL card,
mailed direct with SASE from St. Petersburg, Russia. *Sent to my
address, but specified the correct /WI9WI callsign.

--

Doug Smith W9WI
Pleasant View, TN *EM66

That one I'd forward on to WI9WI.

73, de Hans, K0HB

wrote:
On Mar 28, 10:28 pm, sorry-spammers ""w9wi\"@(sorry-spammers)"
wrote:
Well, something completely new happened today... Got a PSE QSL card,
mailed direct with SASE from St. Petersburg, Russia. Sent to my
address, but specified the correct /WI9WI callsign.

--

Doug Smith W9WI
Pleasant View, TN EM66

That one I'd forward on to WI9WI.

73, de Hans, K0HB

(that's what I did)

--

Doug Smith W9WI
Pleasant View, TN EM66