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W1 QSL Card Sorting Session Cancelled, August 13, 2020

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Eric Williams, KV1J, writes on the Algonquin Amateur Radio Club mailing list: Hope all are well. I am cancelling our QSL sort session that was scheduled for August 13, 2020. Two reasons: one, of course, is the current virus situation.  The Fire Station is not available and our work is not “Essential.” The other reason is with the worldwide precautions, we are not receiving the boxes from the countries.  So at this point that are not enough cards to sort.  It may be that the mail embargoes will be released and we’ll get a surge of cards at some point.  …

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QSL Sorting at Nashoba Valley ARC, November 21, 2019

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Bruce Bain, K1BG, writes: The Nashoba Valley Amateur Radio Club’s November meeting will be […] Thursday, November 21st, at 7:30 PM at the Pepperell Community Center in Pepperell. This month program will feature our annual “QSL sort” for the W1 QSL bureau. It’s personally my favorite meeting of the year. Grab some of your cards early, converse with other local hams, have some refreshments, and of course, sort a few cards! If you haven’t done this before and it sounds like a lot of work, you’ll find that this is actually the club’s most rewarding event. Pizza and soda follow when the …

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QSL Bureau Services at Northeast HamExposition @ Boxboro, September 7-8, 2019

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Eric Wililams, KV1J, writes on the YCCC mailing list: Next weekend [September 7-8, 2019] we have a QSL Bureau booth at the HamXposition/Boxboro show. Our booth will be next to the ARRL booth. You can fund your Bureau account and get answers to your questions about the Bureau. We will be accepting cards for the ARRL Outgoing Bureau at the booth. Please see the instructions on the ARRL web for sending your cards and the fee structures.   There is also a simple form to submit with your cards found on the ARRL web. Fee payments can be done by check …

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Billerica ARS Special Program: QSL Sorting, September 4, 2019

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Andy Wallace, KA1GTT, writes on the BARS website, at https://www.w1hh.org/next-bars-meeting-wednesday-september-4-2019-at-700pm-eric-kv1j-qsl-sort-and-free-pizza/: Everyone, I am pleased to announce that yet again we will have our annual QSL sort and pizza party! Eric Williams, KV1J, is a volunteer for the W1 QSL Bureau, sponsored by the Yankee Clipper Contest Club. http://www.w1qsl.org/ http://yccc.org/ The W1 QSL Bureau is a service which accepts incoming QSLs from overseas and redistributes them to U.S. hams in the W1 call district – 100,000 of them per year! Each card coming in must be sorted by first-letter-after-the-1 to prepare them for their final destinations to hams who have paid …

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QSL Sorting Night at Algonquin ARC, August 8, 2019

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Eric Williams, KV1J, W1 QSL Bureau Co-Manager writes: Seventh Annual AARC QSL Sort Night  The Algonquin Amateur Radio Club will be holding a QSL card sorting session on  Thursday, August 8, 2019 at 7:30 PM at the Marlborough Fire Station.  We will  be in the classroom/EOC where we hold Field Day.  The W1 QSL Bureau receives QSL cards from DXers all over the world, sorts them and then  sends them to the New England area hams.  We process about 100,000 QSL cards each year.  To do this, we are grateful for the team of over 40 volunteers and several area clubs that …

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W1QSL Bureau Accepting Cards at Boxboro

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Eric Williams, KV1J writes on the Yankee Clipper Contest Club reflector: Next weekend we have a QSL Bureau booth at the Boxboro show.  Our booth will be next to the ARRL booth. You can fund your Bureau account or get answers to your questions about the Bureau. We will be accepting cards for the ARRL Outgoing Bureau at the booth. Please see the instructions on the ARRL web for sending your cards and the fee structures  There is also a simple form to submit with your cards.  See http://www.arrl.org/files/file/QSL/Submission%20Form%202017-02-24.pdf . We are just collecting the cards for the ARRL so please …

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W1 QSL Card Sorting Session at Algonquin ARC, August 9, 2018

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Eric Williams, KV1J, writes on the Algonquin ARC mailing list: The Algonquin Club will be holding a QSL card sorting session on  Thursday August 9th, 7:30 PM at the Marlborough Fire Station.  We will  be in the classroom/EOC where we hold Field Day.  The Bureau receives QSL cards from DXers all over the world, sort them and then  send them to the New England area hams.  We processed about 100,000 QSL  cards each year.  To do this, we are grateful for the team of over 40  volunteers and several area clubs that help make this happen.  Our  Algonquin club is one of the …

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Clubs Invited To NVARC QSL Sort, Oct. 21, 2010

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Nashoba Valley ARC logoStan Pozerski, KD1LE writes:

[The Nashoba Valley Amateur Radio Club] is inviting local Amateur Radio clubs to participate in our QSL Card Sort for the W1 Incoming QSL Bureau. It will be held at our October meeting on Thursday, October 21st. We will be sorting between 18-20,000 incoming QSL cards. Pizza and soft drinks will be served after the sort.

Our meetings start at 7:30 or a bit earlier if we can get in at the Pepperell Community Center, which is at the rotary junction of Route 111 and Route 113 in Pepperell.

See the club Web site for more information at http://www.n1nc.org.

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