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

Fri Dec 24 05:13:54 EST 2004

Kenji,
Thanks for good wishes. All the best in 2K5.
Hope to survive another postal cost increase due
to take effect on Jan.17.2005 in Canada.
73 Nenad VE3EXY ...
P.S. The QSL bureau postal code is K2H 7T3. Hi.
Kenji Rikitake JJ1BDX wrote:
>> 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...