bpnjensen wrote:
FWIW, last November (2005) I sent reception reports with significant
detail to Radio Sri Lanka and RAI (Italy). Nice, polite letters with
as much information as was appropriate and at least 20 minutes worth of
detail as best I could describe it - all in English, for
English-language broadcasts.

Aear has past - to date, no response. Each has subsequently received
e-mails with copies of reception reports attached, and for Sri Lanka
even a followup letter with report and additional postage (IRC *and* a
couple of US $$), and still not even a whisper, neither a confirmation
nor a denial.

I have understood that this long timeframe is typical from Italy - but
is Sri Lanka like that as well? I know that Sri Lanka had its hands
full with the tsunami and some political unrest, but I didn't think
that it would put RSL out for so long...

Anyway, there you have it. Patience is a virtue - nay, a mandate - in
this hobby, I guess.

Bruce Jensen

Back when I was a kid it took 12 years to get a qsl from a station in
the next county, I ended up walking there barefoot in the snow to get it
from the engineers hands!

Back when I was a kid it took 12 years to get a qsl from a station in
the next county, I ended up walking there barefoot in the snow to get it
from the engineers hands!
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and i bet it was up hill both ways...

Drifter...

*on*the*fringe*of*Pittsburgh*

I sent a few dollars along with detailed reception reports to SLBC 15 months
ago. Received nothing, and ain't holding my breath.


"James Douglas" wrote in message
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bpnjensen wrote:
FWIW, last November (2005) I sent reception reports with significant
detail to Radio Sri Lanka and RAI (Italy). Nice, polite letters with
as much information as was appropriate and at least 20 minutes worth of
detail as best I could describe it - all in English, for
English-language broadcasts.

Aear has past - to date, no response. Each has subsequently received
e-mails with copies of reception reports attached, and for Sri Lanka
even a followup letter with report and additional postage (IRC *and* a
couple of US $$), and still not even a whisper, neither a confirmation
nor a denial.

I have understood that this long timeframe is typical from Italy - but
is Sri Lanka like that as well? I know that Sri Lanka had its hands
full with the tsunami and some political unrest, but I didn't think
that it would put RSL out for so long...

Anyway, there you have it. Patience is a virtue - nay, a mandate - in
this hobby, I guess.

Bruce Jensen

Back when I was a kid it took 12 years to get a qsl from a station in the
next county, I ended up walking there barefoot in the snow to get it from
the engineers hands!