[Dx-qsl] U.S. to U.S. QSLing
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Sun Jun 2 05:57:00 2002
No,the JARL membership fee is 7200yen that is 57$B%I%k(B per year.
This includes postage they send us QSLs every other month.
And no fee when they receive our outgoing cards. All inclusive.
The buro is run by commercial base, not volunteer.
As you know, JA laboring is quite expensive.
You're right for non-member cards.
But it is still 50% higher than ARRL membership and
there's many arguments about JARL price.
According to the JARL annual report this April, they spent
95574322yen for QSL and 3199960yen for international QSL.
Thus the total is 790$B%I%k(B thousand for 17 million cards.
It seems the whole QSL expense is less than 20% of their income.
So the high membership is not due to domestic QSL handling.
I have only this report but I think some JAs on this reflector
know more detail about this cost.
Anyway no one joins JARL if it's 200$B%I%k(B per year, hi.
ARRL volunteer based buro system is the spirit of the hobby,
I hope you'd also run domestic buro without substantial
membership increase. If no domestic buro, then US 100
county award mean 100 SASEs? Can this hobby survive?
Masa / JG1OWV
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