Just in case you didn't know this, as part of your club dues the club provides outgoing QSL service to the ARRL outgoing QSL Bureau for ARRL members. So how do you do this?
1) Check to see if the station worked does accept cards via Bureau. If yes, then fill out your outgoing QSL cards for DX starions. They do not accept domestic QSL cards, so here in the US just mail it to the othef US station.
2) Make sure that it clearly states the callsign of the receiving station.?
3) Sometimes a station uses a QSL manager, so write on the card somewhere the QSL Manager's Callsign for the folks at the bureau. They don't have time to track down a EA#/DL#XXX station and might? send the card to EA bureau instead of the DL Burea which is where the QSL Manager is.
4) include on a piece of paper write your callsign and ARRL membership number and expiration and include it with your cards.
5) at the next club meeting or consortium, bting the cards and hand them to Bob W1YRC. You can drop them off to him at his house, but contact him ahead of time to see if he us home first and to expect them. He collects as many as he can and mails or delivers them to the league when he has a bunch to go. The bureau charges by the pound for QSL card handling, not individual or card count. So sending 10 QSL cards or 100 qsl cards (about 1 lb) costs the same. So it's better to send in batches of cards as a group rather than a few at a time.
And finally, wait for the W1 QSL bureau to receive cards from the DX stations for you.?
Important note, the bureaus can take several months to a couple years for the cards to get tothe DX station and their cards to come back.
The more you know.
And big thank you to Bob W1YRC for collecting batches of cards yo send to the league.
73 Matt NA1Q?
