[Nodxa] Update note for NODXA's January 9 meeting RE: QSLing

[Goose Steingass]

Don is right on submitting cards as a club and the $7 covers the whole shipment.  However, there is a caveat.  The club has to be an ARRL Affiliated Club to take advantage of this.

73............de Goose W8AV

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k8mfo--- via Nodxa <nodxa at lists.contesting.com> wrote:

>Bob and Others:
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>You are right about the pricing of the Outgoing Bureau going "through the roof".     While I'm an Incoming Bureau manager (Letter G), I'm  frequently asked questions about the Outgoing Bureau.
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>The price is so high because of the MINIMUM $7 charge applied to each bureau shipment.    Then you are assessed additional fees per ounce.       One way to minimize the cost if for a CLUB to combine their shipments to the outgoing bureau.   As I understand it, the $7 handling fee will cover the entire shipment from a club.
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>Goose - W8AV and the Wooster Radio Club do these consolidated shipments to the Outgoing Bureau.     He can comment further on the mechanics.
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>I know the ARRL promotes LoTW as the "answer", but there are a lot of people who have not enrolled for one reason or another.  ALSO, I find that even if a DX station confirms by LoTW, a goodly percentage still send a paper card through the incoming bureau system!
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>Personally I have 34 drawers of  DX QSLs here, in alpha or numerical order!
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>I'll say no more!
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>73
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>Don K8MFO
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: R.T.Liddy <k8bl at ameritech.net>
>To: af8c <af8c at alumni.caltech.edu>; nodxa <nodxa at contesting.com>
>Cc: Scott - N8SY <n8sy at n8sy.com>
>Sent: Tue, Jan 9, 2018 10:28 am
>Subject: Re: [Nodxa] Update note for NODXA's January 9 meeting RE:  QSLing
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>Glenn,
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>Thanks for the informative link.
>IMHO, the fee that the League has placed on Outgoing Bureau
>usage has priced it out of common usage. In the past, I'd take a
>few dozen cards a couple times a year and send them out via
>the Bureau. With the high additional fee, I plan to only use the
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>Bureau once per year at most, if at all.
> Additionally, I think the League is trying to encourage folks to
>only use LoTW and eventually end physical QSLs altogether
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>which would end one of the more enjoyable aspects of our hobby.
>73,    Bob  K8BL
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>________________________________
>From: "Williams, G (AF8C)" <af8c at alumni.caltech.edu>
>To: nodxa at contesting.com 
>Sent: Tuesday, January 9, 2018 9:47 AM
>Subject: [Nodxa] Update note for NODXA's January 9 meeting RE:  QSLing
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>Hello,
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>  It appears, after Tedd's questions at the meeting, that the following
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>document should be read:
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>http://www.arrl.org/files/file/QSL/THE%20ARRL%20OUTGOING%20QSL%20SERVICE%202
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>016.pdf
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>--73, Glenn, AF8C
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>NODXA Secretary
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