QSL printing suggestions
Posted: 22 Mar 2020, 22:29
My another topic is paper QSL printing - partly a copy-paste from my suggestions to v1 written in 2019. Most of them still stand!
1. Label sorting. I use label print feature for hand-writing my cards. Easy and simple to copy it from PDF. Labels or hand-written, I'd like (and my local QSL manager) my outgoing cards to be sorted by destination country main prefix. Of course, if sent to manager, managers country prefix should be used for sorting. So eg. first card is Z3AAA via BH1AAA (=BY), then TM1AAA (=F), then 3Z1AAA (=SP). If labels would be printed in such order, they pile of outgoing cards will be sorted automatically. Currently, sorting information is quite correctly only printed (last row of the label), but it still needs manual cards rearrangement afterwards.
BTW, there's great website tool "QBuS" with ultimate callsign-to-bureau assignments: http://www.qbus.uba.be/online/qbus-online.php
2. There are countries which do not have QSL bureaus (listed on IARU website). Log4OM could give a red warning when trying to print a bureau label to such country. This could be extended even for individual callsigns, eg. in Poland there's online list of callsigns which paid their membership and have access to the bureau. Perhaps other country managers would join here and provide data to save their work.
3. Slashed zeros in labels. Or at least give us a font selection, so we'll manage from there.
4. I prefer to put exact QRG on my cards instead of band information. Perhaps I'm not the only one and it's worth an option?
Thanks,
Wojtek
1. Label sorting. I use label print feature for hand-writing my cards. Easy and simple to copy it from PDF. Labels or hand-written, I'd like (and my local QSL manager) my outgoing cards to be sorted by destination country main prefix. Of course, if sent to manager, managers country prefix should be used for sorting. So eg. first card is Z3AAA via BH1AAA (=BY), then TM1AAA (=F), then 3Z1AAA (=SP). If labels would be printed in such order, they pile of outgoing cards will be sorted automatically. Currently, sorting information is quite correctly only printed (last row of the label), but it still needs manual cards rearrangement afterwards.
BTW, there's great website tool "QBuS" with ultimate callsign-to-bureau assignments: http://www.qbus.uba.be/online/qbus-online.php
2. There are countries which do not have QSL bureaus (listed on IARU website). Log4OM could give a red warning when trying to print a bureau label to such country. This could be extended even for individual callsigns, eg. in Poland there's online list of callsigns which paid their membership and have access to the bureau. Perhaps other country managers would join here and provide data to save their work.
3. Slashed zeros in labels. Or at least give us a font selection, so we'll manage from there.
4. I prefer to put exact QRG on my cards instead of band information. Perhaps I'm not the only one and it's worth an option?
Thanks,
Wojtek