The QSL for TX5T Raivavae, Austral Islands DXpedition has been designed by Max ON5UR.
OQRS Open.
361 Direct QSL cards posted on 20th September.
Author - Tim Beaumont
The new version of the Bespoke OQRS is now on line and there are quite a lot of changes. Many are cosmetic, adding a bit of colour and others are more practical. I will post a longer description later but two of the main changes;
1) OQRS now allows ”live logging” by Dxpeditions providing they have a stable Internet connection and are using N1MM.
2) After a log search you will see that we will no longer accept email and social media requests for Missing Call requests. This is a practical change and indeed a safer way to ensure all busted calls are traceable and more important, that none are missed by being sent on many different social media platforms.
Social Media requests need to be discouraged.
By using the Log Check Request Form for missing Q’s this also helps me identify any serious log issues that i need to report to the DX team.
Thanks, hope you enjoy the new version which you will catch on both M0URX and M0OXO OQRS sites…..
Members of the NB-DX Team from Belgium will be QRV as HB0/ON4ANN
From September 22-28. Team members include ON4ANN, ON4CCV, ON5PDV, ON2BDJ, ON4CKM and ON6MI.
The operators may also do some WWFF activity as HB0/ON4CCV/P and HB0/ON4CKM/P.
QSL via M0URX OQRS
Following on from their 2017 operation the CanAm DX Group is pleased to announce that they have added an additional team member, K4UEE, Bob Allphin, to their upcoming trip to Austral Islands. The licence for their call sign TX5T has arrived
The team will arrive on Raivavae Island IOTA Ref:OC-114 on August 13 and staying through August 22.
Plans are to have three stations on 40-6 meters on CW, SSB, RTTY and FT8.
The Australs are number 71 on the Most Wanted List on Club Log. The team may try 80/160 but given summertime conditions in the Northern Hemisphere.
Please visit the web site for more information:
There will be a new QSL card printed after the DXpedition. The QSL shown above is from the 2017 operation.
QSL Via M0URX OQRS:
The Final log has been uploaded to OQRS and LoTW. A further 400 FT8 QSOs have been recovered and are now on OQRS and uploaded to LoTW.
QSL cards have been posted to 84 World Bureaus – Monday 16th July 2018
This mailing is a joint mailing between M0OXO Charles, M0URX Tim & M0SDV Jamie.
I would very much appreciate feedback from you when the QSL cards start arriving at World Bureaus or received by hams around the world? This feedback will be added to our data below.
This mailing features cards from the recent expeditions, 5B80FOC, 6O6O, EJ1D, VU4G, ZC4A,
The parcels are sent by Priority Business Mail to get to the Bureaus quickly.
Total amount of QSL cards dispatched: 19,303
Via M0URX 4,784
Via M0OXO 9,632
Via M0SDV 806
Via MD0CCE 471
Via 9M2CNC / G4ZFE 1,435
Via G4IRN 1,015
Via LZ1JZ 1,066
Via G4ZIB 94
Total Weight 71,610g (gross weight includes packaging)
Max ON5UR will be operating from Kosovo between 20th – 30th September 2018. Max has received the licence from ARKEP and will be QRV as Z68UR
It has been very difficult to get mail in and out of Venezuela over the last year due to the politcal and financial climate in the country. Several attempts to get our bureau packages to the YV QSL Bureau failed with mail being returned as “Route suspended” however thanks to the help of the YV Bureau team we were able to route the mail via USA and this was picked up by the YV team.
The photo from YV4BCD, Juan shows that the cards from M0OXO Charles and myself, M0URX Tim finally got through to the Venezuela hams. Thank you to all who helped!
Something is happening that I believe could be the death of the Bureau QSL card. For security reasons all parcels sent around the world will soon have to have “Pre-Advice Data”
What this means is that I need to send in advance, electronically, personal data of the recipient and the contents of the parcel to customs.
I will need the IARU Bureau email address, name of the person I am sending to, telephone number, as well as the usual customs declaration.
This electronic data will need a “Commodity code” for the items inside the parcel. QSL cards are as near as we can get it “postcards” which is commodity code 49090000.
This is where we have a problem, this is telling customs that the postcards in the box are a commodity and are likely to be charged VAT standard rate to other European Union Countries (Isn’t the EU supposed to be there to help EU citizens?) The only good news is that outside EU is 0% tax.
But I see nothing that can tell the recipients customs or douane that these postcards are a gift of “no value”
This will be starting in January 2019 and in some countries like Brazil it has already started. I am trying to get my head around this, looks really complicated and as far as I can see IARU Bureaus are not ready for it. I have asked my mail carrier for advice, so if I find out more on this I will report back soon.
3rd June – As of this time i am working with my account manager to ensure that our bureau dispatches will meet the new “Pre-advice data” requirements, however this does depend on cooperation from the IARU Bureaus to ensure that we have the data we need.
A new QSL for John, HK3C is now in the printroom and will soon be ready to post.
As always OQRS is open for your requests.