[Dx-qsl] Global QSL

Wed Jan 28 17:27:45 EST 2009

The buro is abused more and more and I will soon stop using it. Its a DX buro, not US to US.
73
Ron
--- On Wed, 1/28/09, Alfred Laun <hs0zar at gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Alfred Laun <hs0zar at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Dx-qsl] Global QSL
> To: "Peg Haese KB9LIE" <kb9lie at yahoo.com>
> Cc: dx-qsl at mailman.qth.net
> Date: Wednesday, January 28, 2009, 1:57 PM
> 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
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> you've got...till it's gone. 
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