Archive - April 2025

Friedrichshafen Ham Radio 2025

15 April 2025

It will soon be time for our travels to Germany and visit the biggest Ham Radio show in Europe, and one of the fun events of the year. Below is the latest publicity and reminder to get your tickets for this excellent show.

Experience the fascinating world of amateur radio in Friedrichshafen on Lake Constance from June 27 to 29, 2025. Europe’s most important trade fair for radio amateurs, HAM RADIO, will be held here for the 48th time.

The motto of HAM RADIO 2025 is “Remote Radio – Connecting the World”.

Immerse yourself in a world full of unlimited possibilities and discover the latest trends and technologies in amateur radio!

In addition, our partner and conceptual sponsor of the trade fair, the German Amateur Radio Club (DARC) e.v., is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year. Messe Friedrichshafen would like to congratulate them on three quarters of a century of full commitment to amateur radio.

Book your online ticket for HAM RADIO 2025 today at a special price and join in the celebrations!

Best regards from Friedrichshafen,

Your HAM RADIO team


Mailing Statistics 2024-2025

9 April 2025

This information has been taken from Charles (M0OXO) website. People complain about the cost of a QSL card, but when you see these numbers I am sure you agree they are value for money, but then again probably not as everyone expects everything for free now – the selfish “me,me,me,me,me” society we live in. Thank you Charles & Tim (M0URX) for your service.

As the 2024 – 2025 financial tax year comes to an end, it is time to take a look at how our mailing facility has worked over the last year.
Overall 25,517 items of mail were posted at a cost of £25,972.95. We post QSL Direct cards, bureau parcels and magazines using the various products as shown in the table below. With 3,419 less items posted this year, with Solar Cycle 25 this last 12 months providing much increased propagation on HF.
DX’pedition QSL costs are very competitive as always and we welcome talking to DX teams about mailing your QSL cards in the future.
 
The past 12 months though have been challenging as we continue to battle through the minefield of Worldwide Customs, and find our way through letter mailing solutions that are becoming less reliable around the world and more expensive, prices never go down!
 
While most people use OQRS (Thank you) we still get a number of incoming direct letters. The problem being is that most of the incoming letters do not include the correct QSL costs, because most fail to read either my QSL policy or the DXpedition QSL policy.
 
This increases our costs further and also costs us time as we have to email to let people know that they failed to QSL correctly. My advice is use OQRS ONLY!
 
Enjoy your DX! We as a team promise to provide you with a QSL service that works for both the DX’er and the DXpedition Team.