A look back through 2016 has seen some significant advances in our QSL work at the United Radio QSL Bureau.
Incoming QSL Bureau – The first of which was an agreement with the Radio Society of Great Britain (RSGB) to allow us to continue to receive incoming QSL cards for non-members of the RSGB society that use our QSL service, this was after two years of negotiation and renegotiation. During that time our incoming QSL cards were counted and separated into two piles, member call signs and non-member call signs. It was agreed that approximately 50% of the QSL cards I was receiving were for call signs that were not RSGB affiliated call signs. Both parties agreed that this could not continue and we agreed on some conditions to move forward.
1. That for all call signs member or non-member affiliated we would ask that all Bureau requests must be made by OQRS.
2. That all QRZ.com profiles and DXpedition websites that text would be included to advise that all Bureau requests MUST be made by OQRS.
“M0URX continues to take all reasonable steps to deter users of his service who are not RSGB Members from sending cards to the RSGB QSL bureau”
That United Radio would continue to send ALL outgoing Bureau cards to the IARU Bureaus at the expense of M0URX. Only cards permitted to be sent to the RSGB were to RSGB members within the United Kingdom.
PZ5V – 110 Direct QSL cards will be posted on Thursday 15th December.
245 Bureau cards processed ready for the next dispatch
The QSL has been designed for Pierre FH/HB9AMO for his recent activity from Mayotte Island. The QSL will be in the print room on Monday. Direct QSL cards will be posted out on December 28th.
QSL Via M0URX OQRS
Please do not send us Bureau cards – Use OQRS if you need a card via Bureau. Thank you
The QSL has been designed for the VooDoo Contest Group’s recent activity, PZ5V in Suriname. Max ON5UR will send the design to the print room tomorrow morning so QSL cards will be out before Christmas.
You can see more information about the VooDoo Contest Group on their website.
Pierre HB9AMO confirms that he will be QRV from Mayotte Island in November and will sign as FH/HB9AMO.
Pierre will be active in the CQWW DX CW Contest November 26 – 27 and will be on air before and after the contest.
Travelling light with his Yaesu FT-991 & Automatic Tuner and wire antennas.
QSL Via M0URX OQRS preferred.
Log is now open on OQRS.
QSL cards have been posted 80 World Bureaus today Saturday 3rd December 2016.
This mailing is a joint mailing between M0OXO Charles and M0URX Tim
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
Total amount of QSL cards 21,668
Via M0URX 7,908
Via M0OXO 13,760
Total Weight in g 79,665
Total Cost £345.25 / per kg £4.33
Average postage cost 1.6p per QSL card.
If anyone wishes to make a donation to the costs of bureau shipments, you can do when you request a QSL and use the donation facility on OQRS.
Welcome to the United Radio QSL Bureau to the VooDoo Contest Team, they will be QRV from Suriname with the call sign PZ5V in the CQWW CW Contest in November.
QSL Via M0URX OQRS prefererred.
You can find out more information on VooDoo Contest Team 2016 Contest Expedition
Please note that we do not require your incoming QSL cards. Please only use OQRS for both direct and bureau route. Please do not send your card via bureau – It is not needed. Thank you for helping us to use the Bureau responsibly!
Our OQRS system relies on log updates from our clients, it is not a live online log facility. As soon as i receive the log updates they will be uploaded to OQRS immediately.
For your information the “Last QSO in database” is clearly indicated on the log search. If it is not updated for your QSO then please come back soon to try again.
9M6XRO John, PJ4DX Steve, VK8NSB Stuie and ZB2TT Robert send me weekly log updates which are uploaded between Sunday and Tuesday.
United Radio QSL Bureau has an Outward posting to all IARU World QSL Bureaus 3 times per year.
Our next dispatch will be scheduled for 5th December. Anyone is welcome to use this outgoing service, our rates are very reasonable.
2016 – Our total for Bureau QSL cards posted this year will be 50,000
£6 per kilo. Pro-rata for lower volumes. PayPal accepted
All QSL cards must be pre-sorted into the IARU Bureau sequence.
All parcels should be securely packaged using plenty of packing tape to seal the box against bursting.
Our dispatches are sent using priority Business Mail to reach the bureaus in 7 working days.
Ohh and by the way! If you have any OLD out of date IRCs and you would like to donate them to our QSL service? I would love to hear from you.
We will be reviewing our rates in January as our international carriage costs increase with the lower value of Sterling.
