Confirmation Based Awards

Confirmation based awards. I’ve written about the “worked all states” confirmation based award previously. Follow along here: I like the idea of QSL cards, it’s cool, you get to see a piece of someone’s life that you contacted. Great! I don’t exchange those, because, I can look at someone’s QRZ page and see the same stuff. You might say “but I don’t have a QRZ page!”, and? How’s that my fault? “..but you won’t see my QSL card info because it’s not on my QRZ page!” Once again, and? It’s 2017, get with the program. Step out of the dark ages or don’t, whatever, just don’t get mad at me because I am not doing things the way you want them done, or the way they’ve “always been done”. I do things my way, you do things your way. If you don’t like my way, that’s not any different than me not liking your way. Not my problem. Now then, confirmation by transferring of snail-mail-postcards to obtain an arbitrary award made up by someone or some organization in order to feel good about something or impress others has to be one of the most asinine things I’ve ever heard of. You want to do something to win an award so that either you can feel good about it or impress others. There’s really no other way of looking at it. Ok, so I can understand if you have low self esteem or this is your only real way of communicating, you’re a shut-in, you’re agoraphobic, sure, that makes sense. But for the average person, it is borderline psychosis to even want to do it. I am not going to take part because “so and so” does it. Their wall full of QSL cards won’t be impressive to me. However, a log book full of entries from 50 years of being in Amateur Radio is seriously impressive to me. I have not, nor will not, send out a single QSL card. I could care less if someone wants to see more about me. If they’re unwilling to take the time to visit this web site or my QRZ page, then I am unwilling to mail them a postcard.