[Dx-qsl] Japanese Stations

[Yutaka Sakurai (ysakurai)]

Hello Tom,

My wife (JJ2VLY) and I (JQ2GYU) are the QSL manager team for NH0J, NH0Z, JI1FGX/DU9, DW8BXU, and some more stations which we, ourselves, activated such as T88YU, T88LY, T88GS, JW/JQ2GYU, and so on.
We found just the same problems for the QSL requests from our own country, Japan, through our activities.

I presume the reasons as follows.

(1) Most Japanese hams didn't have a chance to be taught how to DIRECT QSLing because the JARL BURO service has been so nice. They are usually use the BURO service as the default to exchange the QSL cards.

(2) The Japanese CQ ham radio magazine have not been providing such type of information for many years.

(3) The airmail envelope is hard to obtain in these days here in Japan. Furthermore, if you find it fortunately, it most likely doesn't have a method of sealing. The internet emails are killing the snail mail system.

(4) The guidelines for QSLing which are often available on the web site of some QSL managers are difficult to read for most Japanese hams because of the language problems. The Google translation doesn't work very well for English to Japanese.

Please let me know if you need any helps for your QSLing to JA.
I am more than happy to cooperate with you and the other QSL managers in the world for JA issues.

Yutaka, JQ2GYU, also JF1LZQ, WS2Y, M0LZP, and T88YU




-----Original Message-----
From: DX-QSL [mailto:dx-qsl-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Tom Wylie
Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2015 12:48 AM
To: DX Posts
Subject: [Dx-qsl] Japanese Stations

Can I make a plea please on behalf of British QSL Managers.

As a manager I receive many cards from Japan.

First - why do you use envelopes with no method of sealing,   no lick 
and stick, or self adhesive flap?

Please use blue airmail envelopes.    Some of the plain envelopes I 
receive are very thick and by the time I add the card
the combined weight is often over 10 gramms.   The UK break point is 10 
gramms unlike many European Countries and others
where a standard letter is 20 gramms.    When an envelope is over 10 
gramms in the UK it puts the postage up to the next level
and $2 is insufficient to buy a stamp.

Help us out here!



Tom
GM4FDM
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