[CQ-Contest] Sending LOTS of bureau QSL's - recommendations?

[White, Howard]

First I suggest using LOTW...

I run a program called QSLMaker which automatically creates images of QSL
Cards on my computer... I upload the images to Costco...

They print them as Photos  www.ky6la.com so everyone gets a personalized QSL
Card and then I just mail them or ship them to the bureau....

Costs $0.17 per Individual QSL Photo Card.


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Howard S. White Ph.D. P. Eng., VE3GFW/K6  ex-AE6SM  KY6LA
Website: www.ky6la.com 
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-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Mark Bailey
Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2006 5:00 AM
To: CQ Contest
Subject: [CQ-Contest] Sending LOTS of bureau QSL's - recommendations?

Good day, everyone:

I am drowning in bureau QSL cards!  :-)  I think the answer to
this is going to be automatically QSL'ing all of the DX stations
I work.  Does anyone have recommendations how to
use to manage this and where to get the printing done?  I
contacted a local printer we use at work but they can't deal
with varying copy.

My goal is to minimize the amount of time I need to devote to
managing the QSL's.  Peeling thousands of labels or trying to
print thousands of QSL cards on my home printer are not very
appealing prospects.  I need to manage multiple callsigns and
locations.

I have read Jim Reisert's excellent article on managing the KC1XX
QSL cards (http://www.ad1c.com/HamRadio/kc1xx_qsl.htm).  I have
also fiddled with the BV program, which is very impressive.

I'm sure it will take a lot of work to set up a system and I'd
like to only do that once!

Are any of you "pre-emptively" QSL'ing a large number of contacts?
How do you do it?  Do you have any advice on how to approach it?

Thanks in advance for your advice and help!

73,

Mark, KD4D


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