{"id":26,"date":"2020-08-12T00:00:32","date_gmt":"2020-08-12T08:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.w6jbt.org\/2013site\/?page_id=26"},"modified":"2025-08-19T18:28:44","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T02:28:44","slug":"qsl-card-request-guidelines","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/w6jbt.org\/qsl-card-request-guidelines\/","title":{"rendered":"QSL Card Request Guidelines"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-328d24f218175862d8fef34498361d2d\">updated 8\/19\/2025<\/p>\n\n\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.w6jbt.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/SPSR66.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-54\" src=\"http:\/\/www.w6jbt.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/SPSR66-204x300.jpg\" alt=\"SPSR66\" width=\"204\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">QSL Card Request Guidelines<\/span><\/h1>\n<h1 align=\"center\">\u00a0<\/h1>\n<p align=\"center\"><b><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">To request a QSL card from any of the participating Route 66 stations please read and follow the instructions below:<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>1.<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Each station at their discretion is processing their own QSL cards, therefore you must send your request along with your QSL card and a SASE directly to the station you wish to receive a card from.<\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a02.<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Citrus Belt Amateur Radio Club (CBARC) is the host for the Route 66 On The Air event, however it is <b><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">NOT<\/span><\/b> a forwarding service or QSL bureau. CBARC will <b><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">NOT<\/span><\/b> forward any QSL cards that are addressed to any other station. CBARC will only process requests that are addressed to their own event callsign.<\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a03.<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 When requesting a QSL card from any of the participating stations, you must include a SASE with your request.\u00a0 If a SASE is <b><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">NOT<\/span><\/b> included, it will be at the discretion of each participating stations whether or not to send their QSL card back to the requesting person.<\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a04.<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Independent stations operating as \u201cMobile 66\u201d may at their discretion issue a QSL card, ask them on the air for any QSL information.<\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a05.<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>WE DO NOT SUGGEST<\/strong> using a QSL bureau within the U.S. due to delays in the bureaus forwarding the cards, as it can take several months to forward your request<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>NOTE: QSL card mailing time is the discretion of each participating station. If there is a problem with a station&#8217;s QSL card, please contact them directly as CBARC is not responsible for other clubs QSL cards.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>\u00a0<\/h2>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><b>PLEASE <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/w6jbt.org\/?page_id=27\">\u201cclick here\u201d<\/a><\/span> for the QSL routing address for each of the participating Route 66 On The Air stations.<\/b><\/span><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/h1>\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>updated 8\/19\/2025 QSL Card Request Guidelines \u00a0 To request a QSL card from any of the participating Route 66 stations please read and follow the instructions below: 1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Each station at their discretion is processing their own QSL cards, therefore you must send your request along with your QSL card and a SASE directly to &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/w6jbt.org\/qsl-card-request-guidelines\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["entry","page","publish","author-admin","post-26"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/w6jbt.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/w6jbt.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/w6jbt.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w6jbt.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w6jbt.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/w6jbt.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":318800,"href":"https:\/\/w6jbt.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions\/318800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/w6jbt.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}