QSL Bureau

W7 QSL Bureau

The Willamette Valley DX Club is also home to the ARRL 7th District Incoming QSL Bureau (http://www.wvdxc.org/buro.php). The Bureau’s manager Ken, K7IFG, brings thousands of cards to our club meeting every other month where they are distributed to the individual letter sorters. Card sorting begins at 6:30, one hour prior to the general meeting.

Note: cards are only sorted in January, March, May, July, September, and November during the low in the sunspot cycle due to fewer cards.

For more information, contact the sorter for your section. The first letter after your call area determines your section. For example, ‘W7AC’ would be in the ‘A’ section.

Unfortunately, not all of the section managers have email addresses. To contact section managers without email addresses, send a letter using the US Mail to the bureau, with a SASE. The address is at the bottom of this page.

Please do not send applications, SASE’s or cash directly to the sorters, please send that via the WVDXC main address.

http://www.wvdxc.org/orderfrm.html

This weekend….

Got to do a recon up to the Misty Mountain Campground where I’ll be headed over Labor Day. The journey should not be too difficult. The campground looks nice. Tucked at the base of the Blue Ridge, it is a shady, quiet place – small pool and shaded areas where the RVs are tethered to their power and water supplies. There was a ham RV in the camp, but I can’t remember his callsign. Nice Class A motorhome with a small vertical antenna mounted on the back.

I got another envelope from the QSL bureau! It had about 4 or 5 QSL cards from Belgium. One had the special “OO” callsign from last year’s anniversary celebration.

Received a letter from Tom, AA4TB, in South Carolina that I asked about setting up a CW sked. A regular CW sked would really help me out and get me on the air practicing CW. I need to reply to him.

Been sampling the Samuel Adams Brewer Patriot Collection. Four 12oz beers come in a box. The flavors are interesting: Traditional Ginger Honey Ale, James Madison™ Dark Wheat Ale, George Washington Porter® and 1790 Root Beer Brew™. Now, understand that I am usually an adventurous beer drinker… but the Root Beer Brew was not good. Tasted like a juniper bush and licorious placed in a vat of otherwise unimpressive beer. The George Washington Porter was pretty good, although I’m not a huge porter fan. I haven’t got to the other two flavors yet… we’ll see.

The rest of today – I need to clean up the shack (… and the rest of the house!).

Today I received my first envelope of QSL cards from the QSL Bureau. I sent off money back in January (I think) and was wondering if I’d receive anything. The large envelope contained cards from France, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Ukraine, and French Guiana. Unfortunately, none of these were new countries for me, but it was still very cool getting the cards. I need to send more money to the Bureau with my new callsign.