[ADXA] W5 Incoming Bureau

[WB5JJJ]

I received 2 envelopes from the Bureau today.  All excited, I opened them
up and found about 30 cards from Japan and a few other miscellaneous ones.

Almost all of the JA's wanted a QSL card.  Theirs were self-printed on card
stock, and all were from the same software package.  None had an image of
their station, QTH, landscape or anything of interest on the reverse.

My question is, should I just create a similar card to print out or send
them one of my glossy, high quality cards I normally return?  Either way
paying the Bureau for handling the cards.  Nice QSL Cards are not cheap, at
least the ones I like to send, and definitely like to receive.  I've got
almost 1,200 in my little "tubs" already, all sorted by number and then
suffix, ready to quickly recall if necessary.

I already have Brazil "filtered" in WSJTx as well as a couple of stations
that call me EVERY time they see my callsign.  One Italian station has
worked me 40-50 times.  Previously, he had connected with me on the same
band a couple times a day before I finally "filtered" him.

All of these stations upload to LoTW, so apparently they have some logging
program, but just want to add to their QSO count.  With the filters set, my
CQ's don't respond those guys, so I guess I'll add Japan to the filter as
well.  That way, it's my choice to work them or not.

I did find one QSO to "fix" as I fat-fingered it on SSB and added a
character to his call.  All the other data was a match, except for the name
of course.  Didn't add any points to my Challenge, but at least he's in my
log correct now.  And a couple I didn't work at all.  Matter of fact, I
wasn't even on that band/mode or on during that part of the day at one of
those dates/times.  Nothing to "see" here, move along.

Selected cards are in the Bureau envelope, but now it's over the basic
limit and too far below the next level, so I'll do one and wait a while and
do the other.

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73's
George - WB5JJJ
HoIP - 100105
Cell - 479.857.7737
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