Archive - September 2012

Bureau Posting News Outgoing!

Saturday 29th September 2012 – 9,283 QSL cards dispatched to World Bureaus directly.

The biggest parcels are:Japan 1,827, Germany 1,305, Russian Fed 792.
This posting includes QSL cards from the recent activities of 5B/G4MKP, 9M4SLL & CY9M.

Total weight:40.1 kg, Total postage cost: £290.39, average 3p per Bureau card.
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UK Phasing Out IRC’s

I was informed at the Post Office today that the next stage of the withdrawal of International Reply Coupons from the UK will soon take place. 
 
“QSL Via M0URX” will now be phasing out the use of IRC’s for exchanging QSL cards. 
I will continue to sell IRC’s for the time being while I have stock.
 
This is completely out of my control so I am sorry that as from the end of 2012 NO IRC’s will be accepted.
I do not have a date that the Post Office will stop accepting IRC’s it is likely that the service will just be withdrawn without notice.
QSL exchange will be $2 by post or OQRS €2.

IRC’s For Sale

IRC

United Radio QSL Bureau have a number of IRC’s For Sale worldwide.

Re-circulated IRC’s (Correctly stamped & Valid until 31/12/2013) GBP £1.10 each + Postage + a small Paypal charge
I will post to anywhere in the World.  

If you want to buy IRC’s please send me an email on “Contact M0URX” Page. I will quote you on the price for the amount of IRC’s that you want to purchase. 

IRC’s For Sale

IRC

United Radio QSL Bureau have a number of IRC’s For Sale worldwide.

IRC’s (Correctly stamped & Valid until 31/12/2013) GBP £1.10 each + Postage + a small Paypal charge
I will post to anywhere in the World.  

Currently in stock 489 IRC’s

If you want to buy IRC’s please send me an email on “Contact M0URX” Page. I will quote you on the price for the amount of IRC’s that you want to purchase. Mailings now posted regularly!

Letters to post 21/09/2012

5B/G4MKP, 9M4SLL & CY9M Direct QSL cards were posted Friday 21st September.
All direct QSL requests up until last Sunday completed.

European Union Letters:   1,030
Rest of the World Letters: 1,489
18 packets including GDXG, MDXF, DDXF and DX Italia.

116 letters from last week posted out on 24th September 2012.
  73 letters posted 26th September 2012.
  81 letters posted 5th October 2012.

MS0OXE Isle of Tiree EU-008 13-20/09/2012

beach on isle of tiree

“So where shall we go this year for the DXpedition?”
“What about Tiree?”
“Good idea, but where is Tiree?”

And so the team from the “Black Country DX and Contest Group” find themselves out and about setting up station this year on the Scottish Isle of Tiree.

From Thursday 13th September until Monday 17th September MS0OXE will be on air 24/7 and will continue on to Thursday 20th as bands dictate.

The team will be QRV on 160-10m, SSB, CW and RTTY. The team wants to give every operator the chance to work Tiree and additionally for their IOTA marathon scores.

QSL Via M0URX OQRS

More information can be found at: MS0OXE Website
IOTA: EU-008, SCOTIA: DI-10, Loc: IO66ml, WAB: NL94, IOSA: NH 04.

Operators: Simon M0VKY, Terry G4MKP, Brian G0JKY, Drew G7DMO.
The team will have the following equipment on the island and look forward to working you from the Isle of Tiree.

Transceivers:Tiree MS0OXE
1 x Elecraft K3 (CW)
1 X Yaesu FT-1000MP (RTTY)
1 x Yaesu FT-897 (spare)
1 x Yaesu FT-1000MP (SSB)

Amplifiers:
2 X ACOM 1000 400W (1 spare)
1 X SPE 1K 400W

Antennas:
2 X HEX BEAMS 20m – 6m
1/4 wave vertical 30m
1/4 wave vertical 40m
1/4 wave vertical 80m
1/2 wave dipole 160m

Band pass filters, array solutions six pack and coax stub filters to allow multi op/multi band operation. 
LoTW uploaded daily.

MS0OXE Island of Tiree EU-008

beach on isle of tiree

“So where shall we go this year for the DXpedition?”
“What about Tiree?”
“Good idea, but where is Tiree?”

And so the team from the “Black Country DX and Contest Group” find themselves out and about setting up station this year on the Scottish Isle of Tiree. From Thursday 13th September until Monday 17th September MS0OXE will be on air 24/7 and will continue on to Thursday 20th as bands dictate.

The team will be QRV on 160-10m, SSB, CW and RTTY. The team wants to give every operator the chance to work Tiree and additionally for their IOTA marathon scores.

QSL Via M0URX

More information can be found at:

http://ms0oxe.webs.com/
http://www.rsgbiota.org/activations/details.php?activ_uid=00005806

TX/RX:
1 x Elecraft K3 (CW)
1 X Yaesu FT1000MP (RTTY)
1 x Yaesu FT897 (spare)
1 x Yaesu FT1000MP (SSB)

Amplifiers:
2 X ACOM 1000 400W (1 spare)
1 X SPE 1K 400W

Antennas:
2 X HEX BEAMS 20m – 6m at about 40ft.
1/4 wave verticle 30m
1/4 wave verticle 40m
1/4 wave verticle 80m
1/2 wave dipole 160m

Band pass filters, array solutions six pack and coax stub filters to allow multi op/multi band operation.

5B/G4MKP QSL Preview

QSL-5B-G4MKP

Another QSL card in the printroom is 5B/G4MKP, Terry was QRV from Cyprus during August. The QSL card will be available from mid September. I always ask the operators that I am QSL manager for to make sure that they take high resolution images, the final finish has a much sharper QSL card and with some very skillful design work by Max, ON5UR the QSL looks excellent!

I have had several emails asking about the curent situation with QSL cards. All 5B/G4MKP, 9M4SLL & CY9M QSL cards will be out by the end of September. 

The Bureau dispatch to all World Bureaus is also still on schedule for end of September. 

 

CY9M QSL Preview

QSL-CY9M

Here is the CY9M direct QSL card preview. Cards will be posted out in the last weeks of September. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

QSL-CY9M-BACK

Please note that the Bureau QSL will be a single 2 sided QSL. The OQRS is open for Direct and Bureau QSL requests. I have scheduled the Bureau cards to be posted direct to World Bureaus at the end of September.