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

Sun Jun 2 05:57:00 2002

No,the JARL membership fee is 7200yen that is $57 per year.
This includes postage they send us QSLs every other month.
And no fee when they receive our outgoing cards. All inclusive.
The buro is run by commercial base, not volunteer.
As you know, JA laboring is quite expensive.
You're right for non-member cards.

But it is still 50% higher than ARRL membership and
there's many arguments about JARL price.
According to the JARL annual report this April, they spent
95574322yen for QSL and 3199960yen for international QSL.
Thus the total is $790 thousand for 17 million cards.
It seems the whole QSL expense is less than 20% of their income.
So the high membership is not due to domestic QSL handling.
I have only this report but I think some JAs on this reflector
know more detail about this cost.

Anyway no one joins JARL if it's $200 per year, hi.
ARRL volunteer based buro system is the spirit of the hobby,
I hope you'd also run domestic buro without substantial
membership increase. If no domestic buro, then US 100
county award mean 100 SASEs? Can this hobby survive?

Masa / JG1OWV

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> 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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> 
> 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.
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