[Dx-qsl] U.S. to U.S. QSLing

Sun Jun 2 03:12:01 2002

Yes, I am aware that JARL does QSL forwarding for both domestic and
international.
But only if the receiving domestic station is also a JARL member.
I have seen several cards to JA via buro undelivered because they are not
JARL members.
Why do they not be the member of the national organization?
As far as I could tell, it's because of (extremely) high membership fee.
If I recall correctly, it costs you close to $200 per year for the
priviledge to have domestic QSL forwarded.
I don't spend that much money sending domestic QSL's here.

FYI, here at US, the full year ARRL membership costs $39. And that's after
the recent raise.
And our QSL bureaus are run by volunteers. They are not full time ARRL
employees.
For that, I am personally very, very grateful to them.

Domestic QSL bureau is a wonderful idea; it's just seem too costly. And
judging from my experience and the thread of messages here, I'm not so sure
if there is good enough market to support it. If it has to be subsidized, it
cannot exist.
Perhaps some form of authenticated eQSL exchange might be better (I know,
that's an entirely new subject by itself...)

de W6Si

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Subject: RE: [Dx-qsl] U.S. to U.S. QSLing

Hello, let me have a basic question.
Are there no domestic QSL bureau in US?  If not, why?
Don't you guys make it?

Here we can send both domestic and DX cards together to JARL buro.
And I believe most other countries have similar system.
If no domestic exchange there, I guess US hams have more JA buro
cards than direct US domestic cards, don't you?
Oh please do not say you receive too much JA cards, hi.