Transport for the 3Y0J trip in November this year to Bouvet Island is via Marama Expeditions.
Their current transport is currently in Antarctica and we were treat to these nice photographs from the Boat today. Hopefully this gives everyone the excitement that this is really happening and as the next few months pass by, please keep an eye on the websites and Facebook pages for updates.
‘Rocky’ Robert 3B9FR, the only resident Ham on Rodrigues Island will be off air now for around 10 days.
QSL Cards are being printed at the UX5UO Print Shop and will soon be available.
The new International Reply Coupons with a sale and redemption period of 4 years (until 31.12.2025) are now in circulation.
With the significant changes to International mailings now being enforced by world Customs areas, it has meant that this also effects QSL management and I believe that we are the only QSL management team in the world that has been working with our national mail provider, Royal Mail, to discuss mailing solutions and secure access to the right products to keep the direct and bureau QSL cards posted.
The products that we had been using for many years were getting more expensive and were not suitable in the current Covid and customs climate.
Royal Mail had made the decision that these products were going to be removed and replaced by a new stream of mailing products that had to be accessed only by an online mailing solution to give us the correct customs clearance for the Bureau dispatches, however we urgently still require IARU to discuss a unique commodity code to reflect the “0” value at customs of QSL cards. It is quite clear that we are a long way off from this if it happens at all, the result of this no action is that Bureau boxes are now attracting TAX and handling fees around the world which some IARU Bureaus are failing to understand and refusing to pay the TAX and i have to say that I predicted this as far back as 2017, which begs the question why has no action been taken to secure the future of QSL’ing?
For “Direct QSL cards” we are proud to announce that we have secured access to a new mailing product which secures a better package for our daily mailing of direct QSL cards around the world. Prices are considerably more competitive and means that there will be no price rises for your QSL requests going forward into 2022.
This is great news for those that enjoy QSl’ing and excellent news for DXpeditions using our QSL services. We are very confident that our UK QSL managers are the only worldwide QSL providers that work with our national providers to give you the best QSL service out there today.
Please contact us for further information on the service we offer.
VE3LYC Cezar’s new Book, ‘Dream Big and Dare to Fail’ now being mailed by the M0OXO QSL Service.
Seven experienced DXpedition / contest operators will activate Raivavae (Austral Islands) OC-114, French Polynesia as TX5N from April 16 to April 28, 2022. Team members are: Rob N7QT, Walt N6XG, Heye DJ9RR, Gene K5GS, Steve W1SRD, Melanie N7BX and Doris K0BEE.
Finally some good news!