W1 QSL Sorting Party at Nashoba Valley ARC Meeting, Pepperell, November 20, 2025

The Nashoba Valley Amateur Radio Club‘s November meeting is Thursday, November 20th at 7:30 PM at the Pepperell Community Center (in Pepperell). We start gathering at 7 PM to socialize before the meeting starts. The November meeting is traditionally our W1 QSL Bureau night where the club sorts several thousand QSL cards for the incoming W1 QSL Bureau. Come and learn about “QSLing” and how cards move between bureaus all over the world.  Pizza and soft drinks follow the card sort, as well as socializing with other club members and friends.  It is, by far, my favorite club meeting of the year.  It’s a social experience you won’t want to miss, and it’s a lot of fun. 

Additionally, one of the benefits of NVARC membership is that the club PAYS the cost for its members to send their cards through the outgoing ARRL QSL bureau.   <https://www.arrl.org/outgoing-qsl-service>
https://www.arrl.org/outgoing-qsl-service.    The ARRL requires that you are a member to use the outgoing bureau.  You can prove this in several ways – take a copy of the front cover of your current edition of QST (the label has your Member Number and expiration date on it).  Or log-in to the ARRL website and click on your name just to the right of “Hello” at the top of the page.  Print the page (which contains your Member Number and your expiration date).  Then “follow-the-rules”:  <https://www.arrl.org/files/file/QSL/OUTGOING_QSL_SERVICE_2025.pdf> https://www.arrl.org/files/file/QSL/OUTGOING_QSL_SERVICE_2025.pdf.  NVARC will handle packing and payment, but you must sort the cards and provide proof of membership.

As always, feel free to bring a friend.

Come and join the fun!

If you need directions to the club meeting, please click  <http://binged.it/smoogg> here and put your own address in box
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Thanks and 73. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions.

Bruce, K1BG
978-772-2773 or  <mailto:bruce.blain@charter.net> bruce.blain@charter.net