"Stephanie Weil" wrote in message
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On Sep 26, 1:51 am, "David Eduardo" wrote:
The ones that are not lies often have demands for a "QSL" as
if most radio broadcasters knew what a QSL or QRM or SINPO even mean.

Any radio engineer worth his salt should know AT MINIMUM what a QSL
card is.

Unless an engineer is a ham, and fewer and fewer are today, the knowledge of
Q codes is limited. In the MW DX ranks, the terms are not used that often.
But that assumes that a station engineer is going to get a reception report.

With most smaller market stations using contract outside engineering
services, requests for verification of reception often go to managers, PDs,
the receptionist, etc. It's highly unlikely that any among those ranks would
know what a QSL is. And the contract engineers are paid a fee or by the
hour; they don't, unless DXers themselves, answer reception reports.

In fact, if you look at the NRC "report form" going back decades, the "QSL"
term is not used; the form requests a "verification that I received your
station at my location."

Many of the Scandinavian DXers get this. Reports received by KTNQ from that
part of the world use totally non-DX terms to explain their hobby as one of
taking the challenge of catching stations at great distances and collecting
proofs of such receptions.