CLUB QSL BUREAUS

QSL Cards are the lifeblood of the Century Club. The primary condition that we place on participation in our nets is the willingness and commitment to QSL all contacts made on our nets. And we make that very easy to do by operating our own QSL Bureaus for contacts made on our nets.

The 3905 Century Club, Inc. operates its own free QSL Bureaus - free in the sense that you pay only for SASES and postage to get your cards to and from the bureaus. There is no service charge.

You don't have to be a member of the club to use our bureaus, but they ARE only for QSLs for contacts made on our nets. The only requirements to use the bureaus are that you ensure that you have SASES (Self Addressed STAMPED envelopes) in the bureaus at all times and that you plan to use them. You should probably start out by sending in about 6 - 10 envelopes and they should be business size #10 (4-1/8" x 9.5").

The first batch you send should really be a minimum of 10 envelopes if you made a number of contacts and plan to be a regular participant. Send these along with the cards you send to the bureau for distribution. You can expect the QSL Bureau Manager to send 10 or so cards back to you in each of your SASES. If you are just starting in the bureau and you had 27 contacts that you are sending cards in for, you should send along six SASES. Approximately three of the SASES will take care of returning your cards for those first contacts, leaving you with three envelopes on file in the bureau for some future cards to be sent to you before you send in more cards and envelopes to take care of them.

When sending your cards to the Bureaus be sure they are fully filled out with all the information from the contact including both signal reports. If you worked a mobile be sure to include the state in which they were mobile - most mobiles do not log.

You should send in one SASE to the bureau for every approximately 8 - 10 cards you send to the bureau, although you will probably find it more convenient to send envelopes in large quantities less frequently.

Some people, in starting out, are hesitant to use the bureaus because of their experience with the ARRL DX Bureaus, which are very slow, though very well operated. You cannot expect to get your DX cards very quickly when using the ARRL Bureaus because some of the bureaus around the world only make one mailing to the other bureaus each year. The Century Club Bureaus are fast because card sorting takes place daily and envelopes are mailed as soon as they get full.

If you want to SAVE TIME AND MONEY and plan to check into the 3905 Century Club nets at least somewhat regularly, then our Bureaus are really the only way to go.

Our three QSL Bureau Managers and the bureaus they manage are listed below along with links for more information about each bureau. The additional information is well worth checking out!

Bureau	Bureau Manager
All 40m SSB Nets	Richard Smale, W5IL 1 Inca Ln Los Alamos, NM 87544-3814
All Nets except 40m SSB	Gene Schneider, WM9H 4472 S 44th St Greenfield, WI 53220-3604
HandiHam Bureau (For ALL Nets)	Gene Schneider, WM9H 4472 S 44th St Greenfield, WI 53220-3604
DX QSL Bureau (For ALL Nets)	Ron Kaufman, N9KNJ 9924 S Country Knoll New Haven, IN 46774-1992

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