EQSL .CC - Global electronic QSL card exchange for amateur radio operators and SWLs

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Audio version	Listen to an audio interview with N5UP from the RAIN Report and learn about eQSL.cc
Purpose	eQSL.cc is the first and only global electronic QSL card exchange for amateur radio operators and SWLs. It is designed to be the fastest, easiest, and cheapest way to exchange QSO confirmations, eliminating the cost and time that regular QSL cards have required for the past half century. With a larger membership than the entire ARRL, eQSL.cc is THE place where everyone exchanges QSLs quickly and easily.
Ownership	The company is registered in the State of Texas and owned by David L. Morris, N5UP. Dave has nearly 40 years of experience architecting computer hardware and software systems and has been involved in other pioneering software projects involving amateur radio and artificial intelligence. He experimented and developed the eQSL concept over a period of several years, designed the system, wrote all the software, developed the relational database, designed the graphics, and currently handles most of the technical and administrative maintenance. You can read more about the history of the company on our 10th Anniversary page.
Non-profit Status	Although the company is not legally a “non-profit” in the technical sense of the term, it is operated very much similar to a non-profit organization. One can easily calculate the amount of revenue that would be generated from a membership base of 200,000 members if each member were charged even as little as $1 per month.But the company’s mission is to provide basic electronic QSL card exchange services to all amateurs and SWLs around the world FREE of charge. Thus, we do not charge a mandatory membership or subscription fee in order to participate. We do this at a huge loss to us, as you can easily calculate.The failure of “dot-coms” during the year 2000 has been widely publicized. Despite the popular demand for “FREE” services on the web, it is finally becoming apparent to everyone that this is not a realistic expectation. Nevertheless, eQSL.cc does NOT have any plans to begin charging for its basic QSL exchange service. The company’s primary purpose in all revenue generation activities is to offset monthly expenses for Hardware Software licenses Software development Bandwidth Disk space Advertising Bank and service bureau fees Legal and Professional fees etc. The company derives its revenues from: Membership Donations Advertising revenue Commissions on sales of items through Amazon.com and other affliates Sales of award plaques and other items
Business Plans	In January 2009 we launched an interface with CQ magazine, allowing our members to submit credits directly to CQ awards managers. In March 2010 we launched an electronic interface to the DARC servers to allow our users to transmit credits into the DCL contest log. Some organizations such as 10-10 and JARL have had informal acceptance policies toward our electronic QSLs. It is a goal of ours to make arrangements with ARRL, IOTA, and other amateur organizations to accept our eQSLs for awards and contests. We believe our authenticated eQSLs are even more reliable than traditional QSL cards as confirmation of QSOs! You can find out which organizations currently accept our eQSLs by going to the Organization List page.
Advisory Board	The company has daily discussions among a group of Advisory Board members. While not binding on the management of eQSL.cc, the suggestions and recommendations of the Advisory Board are usually accepted, and these have resulted in many significant improvements and new features.Advisory Board members are appointed by the management of eQSL.cc and serve a term that ends December 31 of each year. They are chosen for their experience with web technologies, logging software, contesting, their affiliation with amateur organizations, standing in the amateur community, foreign language expertise, journalistic background, SWL experiences, or other assets of benefit to eQSL.cc.They volunteer their time and energy to the advancement of this aspect of amateur radio, and their efforts have resulted in improved ease of use, enhanced features, and greater popularity of eQSL.cc in the amateur community. Some of them are involved in daily support activities, such as answering e-mail, checking licenses, correcting mistakes in user profiles, approving awards, and other things. Check eQSL.cc Here