40m SSB QSL Bureau
RICHARD SMALE, W5IL
1 INCA LN
LOS ALAMOS NM 87544-3814
Richard is the QSL Bureau Manager for the 40m SSB nets. After reading the following, if you have any questions about the operations or policies of the W5IL bureau, please contact Richard directly.
For return of your cards, Richard accepts only #10 business sized (4-1/8" X 9-1/2") SASES (Self-Addressed Stamped Envelopes), no clasps or string ties, with your call sign written in the upper left corner and YOUR address (clear and legible) in the middle of the envelope. Please use the "Forever Stamp" on the SASES you send so there is no need for you to supply additional postage should postage rates go up. Do NOT send cards more than 3-7/8" in height because cards larger than this do NOT fit properly in a #10 envelope and must be cut or folded to fit and information may be lost. If you are using 4" high (or higher) cards, please trim them to 3-7/8" before sending thru the bureau. Cards significantly smaller than the standard QSL size of 3.5" x 5.5" are also very strongly discouraged.
Please sort the cards you send by call area and then prefix.
PLEASE, if you work a club call, make a note of the OPERATOR's call sign on the card. A note in an upper corner of the card in the form of "Op: AB1XYZ" will assure the card is properly routed, otherwise the card will be returned to sender.
Cards sent to the W5IL Bureau for stations that do not have SASES in the bureau will be held for approximately one month and then returned to you if that station has not sent SASES to the bureau.
You can perform an online Good in the Bureau Check or you may download a program to do off-line checks on your own computer, both at the link just shown. "Good in the Bureau" or "GIB" means a station has sent self-addressed stamped envelopes to our bureau(s).
Please understand that it may take ten days or so after you send SASEs for your bureau status to be reflected in the GIB listing. Also, your status will not be reflected in posted check-in lists until those posting the lists update the GIB database in their copy of the CCLogger program. It is Club policy that no listing older than 72 hours is to be used. If your status is wrong in a listing posted to the reflector at the same time that it is correct in Rick's GIB List, then you should notify the person who posted the list using an out of date GIB database. If your status is wrong on a listing you are viewing live with your own copy of CCLogger, then not only should the person logging the net be notified that his GIB database is out of date, but you also need to update the GIB listing in your own copy of the CCLogger.
The 40M SSB bureau accepts donations to cover miscellaneous expenses such as file folders, other supplies, and occasional courtesy envelopes to new net participants. You may send any donations to the address above.
