Posted: 5/8/2014 5:09:18 AM EDT
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If I am right I have had my QSL card returned with 'not in log' written on it three times.
It makes me wonder how many have simply tossed my card and kept the money because of that. Share your experiences, please. |
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Not much experience with it but "not in log" is very frustrating.
I worked ZL7AAA on the DXpedition and came up as not in log on ClubLog. It was my first one that I know I worked that showed up that way. I hope they just typed it in wrong. I'm going to wait awhile and see if they can find me by giving them my call and the time I worked them. I want to give them some time though because I'm sure they are still busy with QSLs at this point. |
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"Not in log" is frustrating, but it's part of the game. Do 10,000 QSOs and a few are going to entered wrong. Part of the reason why many experienced DXers do a second contact as insurance. However, with the advent of near instant online log checking the necessity of this is negated.
What's got me torqued up is that I have a new entity that confirmed on eQSL and shows up as a match in ClubLog. However no match in LoTW and my card went unanswered. Sending a second card on the hope that the first one got lost in the mail. |
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I send an email to whomever may be involved and ask for clarification or otherwise. If a qsl route is in question I send an email as well. Most of my time working qsl cards is spent doing my homework such as, qsl manager ? bureau, or direct some want $$ some don't. Then I have to verify if I have sent them a card in the
past and has one been returned for a specific band too. After I go through all of that then I can start to fill out qsl cards for the bureau, then sort them all. Then I write out the few direct cards which takes more time. Now you understand why so many use LOTW and eqsl. I do them all . 73- W1JCW |
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I have never received a "not in log", but have given out a "not in log". Here is an email I received last year from a Ham in England:
------ Hi <my name>, I try and check my log against an activators log before entry. My paper log has: <my callsign>===14.346===17.30===31S===W7W/CW-084 Your log has for this time <callsign>. Was this a transcription error, a coincidence or me just being hopeful 8) If I am not in the log that is ok - there is always another - I will not enter in my log unless I here from you. Best wishes ------ The call sign of the station I worked was amazingly similar to the one in England. Just substitute a G for a K, and you have it. Also, the cadence of the QSO must have matched with the English Ham's transmissions. I was 100% on having the correct call sign on my end, as the operator was someone I work regularly and I had a solid 59 copy on him. |
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"Not in log" is frustrating, but it's part of the game. Do 10,000 QSOs and a few are going to entered wrong. Part of the reason why many experienced DXers do a second contact as insurance. However, with the advent of near instant online log checking the necessity of this is negated. What's got me torqued up is that I have a new entity that confirmed on eQSL and shows up as a match in ClubLog. However no match in LoTW and my card went unanswered. Sending a second card on the hope that the first one got lost in the mail. emailing them seems to be the way to go in this case. Incidentally Turkey was good to me. The big year long special event QRZ page said if you need a QSL in a hurry to email them. I did. The operator sent me his PERSONAL card along with the eQSL card printed on paper, signed and stamped and it arrived in mere days. Lesotho DXpedition? I made a contact but was wondering if he got my call right. I emailed with the date, time, signal report (2x2) and frequency and was told he had mistaken the 'ECHO' for 'Ecks-Ray' and corrected the log. |
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I've never had a card returned with "not in log", but I've had several not returned at all. I'm fairly confident it was mail theft, but damn, I want my Galapagos card. I'm in their club log three times, but they don't use the OQRS. I guess I should send them another card....
I think the fact that your card was returned shows good faith on his part. If he just wanted the money, he would have kept it, and not sent you anything. If you complained about getting nothing, he would have blamed it on mail theft. A nice e-mail is probably the best way to clarify the situation. |
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I've never had a card returned with "not in log", but I've had several not returned at all. I'm fairly confident it was mail theft, but damn, I want my Galapagos card. I'm in their club log three times, but they don't use the OQRS. I guess I should send them another card.... I think the fact that your card was returned shows good faith on his part. If he just wanted the money, he would have kept it, and not sent you anything. If you complained about getting nothing, he would have blamed it on mail theft. A nice e-mail is probably the best way to clarify the situation. Yes it does. Returning the card shows integrity. |
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An email showed that my contact had swapped the first two letters of my call. He had gotten back a card from a ham in another country saying not in log.
Between the three of us, we got it straightened out, logs corrected, cards exchanged. It happens. Another time I listened as others worked a station, and carefully copied his call, as I had heard him repeat it to half a dozen other operators. I made contact, then when looking up on QRZ could not find him. This call sign did not exist. Checking back a month later, two months later, still, the call did not show up. I know the contact's stated QTH, and first name, and tried a number of variations of his call, such as trying D for B, etc. Never found him listed. Sometimes all you can do it let it go. |
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The COW in Haiti was my first "not in log", got him on one band but not in log on the other. One of the recent DXpeditions don't have me in the log on 80. Might see if they'll check for a broken call.
If they're lazy they just do a search and if you don't pop up you're not in log. If they have more time or if you ask them, they might check for a broken call at that time where they made a typo or copied one letter or number wrong. Depends on the person on the other end. |
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Sometimes all you can do it let it go. or try this. http://hamcall.net/call Sometimes they get stuff QRZ doesn't. I also ran a Google search and found one neither of them had. |