While I have been a county hunter for years, I still need QSL cards from about 350 counties to complete CQ’s USA-CA All Counties award. To increase my QSL return rate, I always include a self-addressed stamped envelope (SASE) with my QSL certificate (Figure 1). The certificate includes information on the Battle of Kings Mountain, the turning point of the American Revolution in the south. The battle was fought a few miles from my farm. While the certificate originally increased my QSL rate, the return rate has slowly decreased.
I have discovered many hams do not have QSL
