[SOC] New USA to Europe QSL Buro

[D.J.J. Ring, Jr.]

ARRL has a very good outgoing QSL service.  While many criticize it as a
"spendthrift organization, a whore interested in only money and being a
publisher" and other insulting characteristics, the ARRL has come up to the
plate, provided in addition to its "We serve all USA even non members" of
its incoming QSL bureau, provides an excellent outgoing QSL bureau.

If the QSL is that rare or unusual that it isn't handed by a bureau, we have
the WF5E Outgoing QSL (and incoming) Service.

http://www.qsl.net/wf5e/

WF5E runs the 5 land QSL ARRL incoming bureau and receives back from  DXers
direct QSLs in response to the ones he sends out for us.  A secret and
amazingly highly successful weapon in the hunt for RARE DX.  He obtained for
me the Egyptian QSL card I could never get by direct mail or bureau in a
month.

73

David N1EA


On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 2:37 AM, Quikhooligan <quikhooligan at yahoo.com>wrote:

> Anyone know anything about this new startup QSL buro? How well does it
> work?  Is it a valid path for USA to Europe QSL's? Is it really needed?
> Exactly who is EURAO?
>
> ==================
> from:
>
> http://icqpodcast.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1060&Itemid=1
> ==================
> Free 'QSL Gateway' from USA to Europe
> Written by News Editor
> Sunday, 15 August 2010
> As a real alternative 'Outgoing QSL Service' for American hams, and closing
> up European ones to the distance of a national first class stamp, EURAO
> (European Radio Amateurs' Organization) has just established in United
> States an entry point to its QSL Bureaus Network, assuming the shipping cost
> between the two continents for the QSLs to its members.
> This "only-one-way-service" is complementary to the other one provided by
> the existing 11 DX Incoming QSL Bureaus in this country, where European
> associations usually send their QSLs. This was the only solution found to
> the problem of QSLs not delivered to its addressees but destroyed because
> they are not members of the IARU Bureau in their own countries (60% in
> Europe).
>
> This "wormhole" is part of a more global project called EuroBureauQSL that
> is already underway in 10 countries: Andorra, Argentina, Belgium, Chile,
> France, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Uruguay and USA.
>
> So, all OMs and YLs that received (or are going to receive soon) one or
> more QSLs from EuroBureauQSL, now have the opportunity to reply these QSLs
> sending theirs to this address in USA:
>
> EuroBureauQSL
> Hugo Martínez Moreno
> 25 23 82nd St
> East Elmhurst, NY 11370
>
> You will find more info about this project at
> http://www.eurobureauqsl.org/
>
>
>
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