[Dx-qsl] QSLs via JARL bureau delivered 23-DEC-2004

Thu Dec 23 17:13:31 EST 2004

Hi Nenad (thanks for your Zone 2 and VK1AA ops, as well as your bureau
operation) and all:
Note that the major portion of the DX stations in my list were JA ops,
so many of the QSLs were intra-JARL-bureau traffic.
I should say the JARL bureau handles way many more intra-nation (within
JA) QSLs than the JA-DX QSLs. That's how it survives. The dinosaur is
slowly but surely losing its power, however, because the number of JARL
members are sharply declining since late 1990s. Many JA hams,
however, simply don't know about how DX bureaus are suffering from
financial and human resource problems and they think JARL bureau is
*non-metered*. That is not good. I often write about the metering
systems of non-JA bureaus and try to explain it as much as possible.
And I should confess the majority of my DX QSL traffic is P2P (direct)
to the op or the manager.
Just my rants and raves. Season's greetings, HNY 2K5 (not a postal code
of Canada or UK hi hi), and 73.
// Kenji Rikitake, JJ1BDX(/3), another working day begins...
In the message <41CAEC30.237EF509 at nortelnetworks.com>
dated Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 11:02:34AM -0500,
Nenad Stevanovic <nenad at nortelnetworks.com> writes:
> Nice score. The problem is that those are the majority of 
> bureaus that are still functional. ANother 100+ are 
> almost functional.
>> Now with LOtW, and eQSL, they will all be even less 
> functional.
>> Another dozen will be closed completely in the near future.
>> 73 and HNY
>> Nenad VE3EXY ...