If there are some people which like to send such a card I still believe it is just polite to respond to them. If some in this group and probably many others consider those cards to be spam it is also ok for me and then those which don't like should handle those emails in the same way as they do with spam-mails which have passed through the spam filter. But considering the increase in the usage of those electronic qsls I strongly believe that DXLab should support this development somehow even though those cards cannot be used for any award at the moment.? Might be that there is also a way in the future to include a verification code in those cards, and such a verification would be even better than the standard signature on a paper qsl.
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In Dave's proposal I am missing the report which still makes sense for FT8 and similar modes (the standard 59 in SSB and 599 in CW is not interesting at all, but in some real CW qso's (not only exchange of 599 tu). I still find some people giving me 529, 559 or another real report, so I would not like to miss the report. When implementing such a feature I would appreciate to have some automation in the logbook information update when receiving and responding to an electronic qsl.
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I remember we had a similar discussion several months ago, and as this topic is coming up again it means (at least for me) that there is some growing interest in finding a comfortable solution for a program like DXKeeper which is already covering nearly all my needs for my radio activities.
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Juergen, DL8LE
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