The QSL has been designed for VE3RZ/VP9 and will be in the print room soon.
Logs have been uploaded to LoTW.
The VooDoo contest Group will be QRV as PZ5V in preparation for the CQ-WW-CW contest between 20th – 28th November 2017.
Team members this year will include Ned AA7A, John G4IRN, Lee KY7M & Ray G4FON.
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The QSL below is from PZ5V
Tony, VE3RZ will be operating from Bermuda, QRV as VE3RZ/VP9 between 19th to 28th November 2017.
CQ Zone: 5
ITU Zone: 11
IOTA Ref: NA-005
IARU Locator FM72pi
Tony will be on air for the CQWW-CW contest and a few days before the contest using CW and FT8 modes & maybe some RTTY. Logs will also be uploaded to LoTW.
QSL Via M0URX OQRS
United Radio QSL Bureau has reached 10 years in QSL management, supporting rare DX and DXpeditions to send out QSL cards direct and through the IARU Bureaus. Times have changed considerably since I started back in 2007.
The way in which DXpeditions have needed to plan their QSL policies, with cost of shipping and vessel charter reaching new levels it has been important to incorporate in our QSL work, ways that we can assist the DXpeditions in raising valuable revenue to help offset some of the high budgets needed. Quite often the DX chaser may not understand why a QSL will cost $5 but for some of the Top Rare DX locations where vessel charter, helicopter and shipping costs are very high it is not just the cost of postage that you are paying.
In 2007 all QSL requests arrived to us by post with dollars and IRC’s which was 100% manual work. Bureau was in our eyes used abusively back then and still is by many in our hobby. The cost of using the bureau is something few of us think about and few rarely think about the cost to everyone else when they send a box of 2,000 cards to their Bureau for processing when you should be asking yourself:
Are these cards wanted by the recipient? No? Don’t send them.
Do I want their cards back? No? Write “Thanks QSL” or “Your QSL is not required!”
Can I request their card by OQRS? Yes, so do it!
Every quarter we receive a box of cards like this incoming from the bureau, most of which are sent to recycling once processed so please use OQRS.
While 3 or 4 times a year we send out to all IARU Bureaus packages weighing a total of 80 kg. Again combining our mailings with others keeps the cost down for everyone.
Using our bureaus responsibly makes it quicker and cheaper for those of us that actually NEED cards Via Bureau. Since 2007 you have requested over a quarter of a million QSL cards through our outgoing QSL Bureau.
We all have them somewhere stuck at the back of a drawer, yes those old, out of date, International Reply Coupons, (IRC’s) what the hell can we do with them?
Well please DO NOT throw them away they are very useful to us here at United Radio QSL Bureau. If you would be kind enough to donate them to us? We can sell them and use the money to fund our Outgoing QSL Bureau, this will help keep the free Bureau QSL service for all the stations that we are QSL manager for.
But isn’t the bureau free anyway? NO! There is no free lunch, we have to pay for posting all our bureau cards to all the IARU Bureaus. So you can help us by sending us your old out of date IRC’s. Thank you!
More info: IRC Shop
Gary G0FWX will be QRV as V47FWX holiday style from 8th – 15th November 2017 Operating from Calypso Bay on St Kitts Island.
Locator: FK87pg
IOTA Ref: NA-104 QSL Via M0URX OQRS open
UDXT activity operated by Alex UT5UY and Roman UR0MC will be QRV as 4S7AYG from Sri Lanka, October, 22-31 2017.
CQ Zone: 22, ITU Zone: 41, IOTA Ref: AS-003,
IARU Locator: NJ05ix
Licence received & validated for LoTW
This activity became possible due to great assistance of: UX0HX & UZ1HZ HAM Radio Family, UR4LRG, UX1UF, UX0LL, UR8LV.
QSL designs for MU/ON4ANN & MU/ON8CW/P have now been sent to the print room and will be posted at the end of October.
QSL available by OQRS.
The RSGB Convention will, once more be held at Kents Hill Park Conference Centre, Milton Keynes on 13-15 October 2017
I will be attending for the whole weekend and look forward to meeting up with you during the event.