Author - Tim Beaumont

What does United Radio QSL Bureau do?

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A desire to provide DX’peditions a “One Stop Shop” QSL Management, QSL Design and high quality professional printing. All in one!

United Radio QSL Bureau

United Radio QSL Bureau was started in 2007 by Max ON5UR and Tim M0URX to provide a one stop shop for all QSLing services. Here are a few of the services that we provide.
 
ON5UR as part of this, sourced and designed a “DXpedition & Contest QSL” in runs of 5,000 & 10,000 cards where the design, card and print quality are better than what is on the market and cheaper too!
I send out 10,000 samples every year with all my direct QSL cards.
 
M0URX & M0OXO offer a full free QSL manager service to all DXpedition, IOTA and rare DXCC stations, Contest Stations are charged only for the first print run of cards, the same for NON DX stations.
 
M0URX also offers an online posting service for all UK QSL Managers. This service gives up to 70% discount on stamp prices and is essential that DXpediitons make the most of this service. For example on larger mailings of 1.5 kg to a country, 15g letters to the USA could be sent for as little as 32p using Priority Air Mail.
(Contract mailings like this are sorted BEFORE stamped items hence “Priority”)
 
M0URX & M0OXO Together provide an Outgoing QSL Bureau going to all IARU Bureau every 4 months. February, June and October.
 
M0URX & M0OXO both have a tailored OQRS system to speed up both Direct and Bureau postings.


A passion for DX and a desire to promote professional QSL Management, Design and Printing for all radio amateurs. Of course we are also dedicated to the phenomenon called DX!

To give support to DXpeditions, to give postal advice and assistance to UK based QSL managers.

We welcome International DX Teams to use our postal facilities. We offer discounts on postage costs and can send all your outging international and national mailings, saving YOU time and money. Substantial savings on larger malings especially to USA & Japan.

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QRV Tonight PJ4DX and OY1OF

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Some big signals on the bands tonight from two stations that I am QSL manager for, Steve PJ4DX on 21.295 MHz and Olavur OY1OF on 21.242 MHz this evening. Olavur was on a very skewed path at 270 degrees.

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Skype upgrade

After my recent migration to a new computer system I have had to upgrade to the new Skype software. I have to say that I am not impressed. No way of migrating all my contacts to the new Skype.

Please search [email protected] and re add me to your Skype contacts. Thank you!

VK8NSB now on LoTW

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I now have the LoTW certificate for VK8NSB Stuie in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. Full log has been uploaded to LoTW tonight.

Bureau Box Arrived

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4,000 incoming bureau QSL cards arrived from the RSGB Buraau today. I will be working through this box and processing the QSL cards very soon.

United Radio QSL Bureau Computer Install

United Radio QSL Bureau will be closed for a few days while I install a new computer system, this being my first upgrade since 2008. Configuring the logging software, moveing 100+ logs from the old system to the new and installing all the LoTW TQSL softtware and certificates will all take me a few days to load and be read to serve for the next few years. I will be able to reply to emails daily.

Thank you for understanding and sorry for any inconvenience.

Bureau Expenses

With many Bureau users requesting many cards at a time, I would like to remind you that no bureau system is free, it actually costs us a LOT of money. There is the cost of printing the QSL cards and the cost of posting to all World Bureaus to pay.

Please consider donating via PayPal towards expenses [email protected] Thank you.

No Incoming Bureau for 6 months!

Sorry for any delay with bureau cards. I have not had an INCOMING delivery from the RSGB Bureau now since February which is six months! Will keep you posted on the blog.

My thoughts about IOTA & Bureau today

IOTA and getting the QSL cards needed!
With another IOTA contest behind us, I was thinking once again how much I would love to chase IOTA and claim awards. But it is way out of the reach in costs of QSL’ing, and this is not just myself but of many others. I have about 150 IOTA’s that I need QSL cards from but nearly all of them are direct only so I feel pretty disillusioned with the whole award program simply because of these costs.
 
For those of you that were at the recent IOTA convention you will know that RSGB / IOTA have ruled out any log matching facility or use of the ARRL LOTW programme due to the costs involvedI feel it is a great shame as IOTA has a massive captive audience but no or very little investment / support from the RSGB, and this includes how the bureau is currently working.
 
We need more IOTA DXpedition teams to allow bureau requests, my own experience with the RSGB bureau is that we are constantly told what we can’t send and ironically most of the cards I CAN’T send through the RSGB bureau, are QSL cards for its own IOTA award program. Remember if you are not the licence holder of that call sign you can’t use RSGB to receive QSL cards either, so some of the club activations cannot use the incoming bureau for their “mini” DXpeditions to UK IOTA’s

OQRS is the way to request!

OQRS really is the quickest way to receive your Bureau cards from M0URX. On May 21st 2014, DF7EF made an OQRS request for many Bureau cards, these were duly processed and carefully put into the DARC Bureau box. The box was then sent to DARC on June 2nd. This week Uli reports:

“I just got my monthly QSL parcel from the DARC-QSL-bureau and I was amazed how many cards were actually coming from your hands. And the greatest of all: I made my way through your OQRS  on the 21. May 2014. That’s roughly 2 months. What an unbelievable quick service. My heartful thanks to your great work to the ham community. DF7EF Uli”

It is not just the DARC Bureau either! RX3AU from Russia writes: … “Tnx for QSL from GS0NWM, MS0INT (11 QSO), CY9M, VK9MT & others.”

The question that I have to ask is WHY does the RSGB have one of the SLOWEST Bureaus in the World? In tests here it is taking one to two years to get QSL cards to RSGB members, and that is sending from here as an RSGB member! 

Bureau does NOT mean slow! Just be clever and use OQRS for your Bureau cards!