I spent lunch today bouncing around area Post Offices until someone could definitively tell me that, while the USPS honors International Reply Coupons [1], they do not sell them [2]. So now sending a SASE to Omsk involves finding an online market for these products, knowing someone in a country with a postal service with…
Just knocked out my first ever set of QSL cards for the Route 66 On the Air stations I managed to contact. All told I hit 9 of 21 which isn’t awesome by any stretch of the imagination but it was my first HF experience. Anyway, I don’t think I’ve written that much in longhand…
Bagged two Route 66 special station calls [1] tonight. Flagstaff, AZ (W6G) on 20 meters (14.25700) and St. Louis, MO (W6P) on the 40 meter band (7.27300). I was happy to get W6P tonight after unsuccessfully trying to get through last night. Only four days left to collect them all. [1] http://forums.qrz.com/showthread.php?448515-2014-Route-66-On-The-Air
My first HF QSL goes to W1AW Portable 7 [1] in Oregon on 7.170.0Mhz. Contact made at 2014 September 07 at 0349 UTC. The W1AW portable calls in 2014 are celebrating the 100 year anniversary of the ARRL [2] and every state gets two one week whacks at a portable call. Tonight’s station was located…
Speaking of QSL cards, a SWIARC ham, KQ0J, just received a QSL card from a contact he made in China [1]. I can’t wait to get on the air! [1] http://swiradio.org/2014/08/26/qsl-card-from-chine/
My latest iteration of the QSL card. Getting happier with it by and by. I like the 1864 Johnson map of the area for the historical oddities but it is a little busy even when washed out. If anyone knows where to find a line drawing of the six state area centered along the Missouri…