Path: utzoo!utgpu!CUVMA!SWL-L Date: Tue, 20 Feb 90 10:54:52 EST Reply-To: Larry Johnson Sender: Short Wave Listener's List Comments: Warning -- original Sender: tag was From: Larry Johnson <@UUNET.UU.NET:lrj@fibercom> Subject: Re: RADIO MOGADISHU QSL-POLICY X-To: swl-l@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: UofToronto LAN redistribution Message-ID: <90Feb21.220715est.58726@ugw.utcs.utoronto.ca> Newsgroups: bitnet.swl-l Distribution: ut Approved: devnull@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu In article <943@kielo.uta.fi> tijoma@uta.fi (Jorma Mantyla) writes: >Hey folks, >would you like to PAY for QSLs? Some Finnish DXers have recently >received letters from Radio Mogadishu, Somalia, where this station >announces that if you want to get their QSL you must: >1. send them a tape; >2. pay $50 -- yes, fifty U.S. dollars! Furthermore, Radio Mogadishu >says that they will charge this money from your American Express. >No QSLs if these procedures are not followed! Call me idealistic, but... Doesn't the practice of selling QSLs for profit call into question the integrity and validity of the QSL itself? I mean, if someone is desperate enough to send me a QSL for $50 plus a tape, I'm sure we could strike a price at which the tape became unnecessary. >Yeah... DXing is becoming an expensive hobby. Perhaps Radio Mogadishu's intent is to price the hobby out of the range of everyone but us filthy first-world capitalists :-). 73, Larry, WB1FOF -- Larry Johnson INTERNET: lrj@fibercom.com FiberCom, Inc. UUCP: uunet!fibercom!lrj P.O. Box 11966 PHONE: +1 703-342-6700, 800-423-1183, X317 Roanoke, VA 24022-1966 FAX: +1 703-342-5961