[KCDXC] Fw: [DX-NEWS] (Fwd) HK Buro

Sat, 1 Mar 2003 13:20:02 -0600

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From: "Steve-KF2TI" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2003 12:52 PM
Subject: [DX-NEWS] (Fwd) HK Buro


> FYI (for your information)..........
> 
> 
> ------- Forwarded message follows -------
> Date sent:      Sat, 01 Mar 2003 09:58:26 +1100
> To:             [email protected]
> From:           "David McAulay  (VK3EW)" <[email protected]>
> Subject:        HK Buro
> 
> LCRA TO BE DISSOLVED  ---> "My old  friend HK3DDD has  just informed
> me  that postal rates in Colombia were doubled as of January 1, 2003
> and it now  costs the equivalent of US$2.00 to send a  letter from
> Colombia to the USA",  Fred, K3ZO reports. "It now costs HJ/HK hams
> the equivalent of 13 cents per QSL  to send outgoing  cards through 
> the  bureau, but  anyway  the bureau  won't  be available any  longer 
> 
> because the  Colombian  IARU-member  society  LCRA  is meeting this
> Saturday to dissolve itself, since with only 200 paid-up members and
> US$8000 of debt it  feels it can  no longer stay  in business. Beto 
> says Colombian hams  have stopped  calling CQ  and running  stations
> because  they can't afford to  handle the  consequences economically. 
> 
> Colombian DXers  are simply searching  and pouncing  these days, 
> looking  for new  countries  for themselves".
> 
> ------- End of forwarded message -------
> 73,
> 
> Steve - KF2TI
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