[Dx-qsl] Global QSL

Wed Jan 28 16:57:55 EST 2009

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Peg Haese KB9LIE <kb9lie at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> ARRL was not silent when I contacted them about this, but I didn't save the response. If I send the buro a card from my US call to another US call, how do they know it's in response to a Global QSL?

It is up to the discretion of the Bureau Manager. In the case of our
Third Call Area Bureau, the volume of USA-to-USA cards received from
Global QSL when they first started up was so small that I simply
passed those few cards on to the sorters without comment. But a few
of my colleagues in other call areas complained, so now Global QSL
filters out USA-to-USA cards before sending them to us.
However Peg, since you operated from FP-land, a card from a USA
station for FP/KB9LIE can legitimately be sent by a USA station
through the ARRL HQ Outgoing QSL Bureau. ARRL HQ, knowing that KB9LIE
is the manager for FP/KB9LIE cards, will pick that card out of the
pile and send it to the W9 Bureau for dispatch to you. As Manager for
the DX station FP/KB9LIE, you can include an answer for that card in
your next mailing to the outgoing bureau and it will be forwarded to
him/her through the Bureau system. That having been said, ARRL does
prefer that USA stations, when QSLing a DX station who has a USA
manager, QSL direct to the manager with an SASE rather than through
the Bureau system. Thus the statement in the web page
http://www.arrl.org/qsl/qslout.html which states: "(In the case of
DXpeditions and/or active DX stations that use US QSL managers, a
better approach is to QSL directly to the QSL manager. The various DX
newsletters, the GOLIST QSL manage-r directory, and other
publications, are good sources of up-to-date QSL manager
information.)".
As for WF5E (who provides an excellent service, I use it myself), he
does provide the Manager with an SASE so that cards can be sent back
to him. At regular intervals, he then boxes up the cards for stations
served by our Call Area Bureau and sends them to us for distribution
through the Bureau system. We get a box from Les about every other
month, and the cards always arrive in excellent condition.
73, Fred Laun, K3ZO
Manager
NCDXA/ARRL Third Call Area Incoming QSL Bureau