[Dx-qsl] How to QSL Cuba?

Thu Jun 24 00:19:59 EDT 2004

At 16:49 23-06-04, Robert G. Schaffrath wrote:
>I worked T44I back on June 13th and the route is via CO2WL. I have never
>QSL'd Cuba direct before and I am not sure of the procedure due to possible
>U.S. issues with sending greenstamps. Should I go via the buro?

Buy mint stamps from Bill Plum or use an IRC would be my two suggestions, 
however...
Cuba is not a rare entity at all, and a good number of strong high-power 
frequently-active stations have managers in Spain. If you're hesitant to 
send mail to Cuba, just work one of the biggies next time you hear them on 
- they're *everywhere* (except for me on 40 SSB, hi hi). See if you can 
work CO8ZZ. He has a German manager who turns around QSLs in under 2 weeks. 
CO8LY has a Spanish manager who's also very fast.
As a Canadian citizen, I sent a US G$ and (SAE to my US address) to a CO 
station last year from Canada, and I've still never gotten a QSL back from 
them, so you never know what's going to happen.
73 de Peter (W2IRT)
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