Comments (4) It’s always a good day when that 5×7″ envelope arrives from the W5 buro. Nothing rare in this batch but some nice cards for sure.
Nice to get a card from a rare-ish country w/o first requesting it with my own card
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A week or so after every contest in which I participate I receive a number of direct QSL cards from stations worked during the ‘test. Some are from Stateside ops, some from DX (mainly Japan, the world’s best QSLers, hands-down).
Without fail, every single card I receive direct includes a self-addressed stamped envelope. I always return it along with my card to them.
If someone wants my card enough to be willing to pay for their postage and mine, I’m certainly willing to pick up my share of the tab in order for us to exchange cards. Continue reading 'Don’t “sase” me!'»
I saw this website a few months ago after being steered there from someone else’s blog. A perusal of the website left me with the impression that it’s a good idea in theory but I wanted to wait a while and see if it worked as advertised.
In a nutshell, you upload your logs in adif format and QSLs for those contacts are printed (from a template you’ve previously designed) and sent to the recipient’s incoming QSL bureau.
The cost for all this is reasonable: 10¢ per card if ordered in lots of 1000 cards or 2¢ more per card if only sending 100 at a time. This is for a full color front & back QSL card with QSO info printed on the reverse and sent to the destination bureau. Not a bad deal, if it works. Continue reading 'A new way to QSL'»
Comments Off If you’re a DXer who’s no longer not chasing awards and simply wants to work toward increasing your country count on various bands, online logs of many DX stations and DXpeditions may constitute proof that you worked a given station and not a pirata.
By proof, I mean for you personally, not an award-bearing entity. They do for me.
Last week, I thought I worked S79GM on 20 and 30 meters. Two days later they updated their online log and I was able to verify that they did indeed copy my call correctly on those bands. Their purpose is to prevent dupes, thereby giving other DXers a better chance at getting through the pile-ups that might otherwise consist of ops seeking insurance contacts. Continue reading 'Online logs – confirmation enough?'»
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Paul W0RW is beginning his QRPTTF early. In fact he seems to be perpetually on his own QRPTTF in the most beautiful of places with his PRC-319 and a whip antenna. Continue reading 'Someone get Paul a calendar – QRPTTF is in April…'»
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I guess the pace of the contest at some points was such that I didn’t look at each & every piece of info presented by the N3FJP software I was using. But I worked two stations whose QTH I was unaware of at the time and happy to learn about later. Continue reading 'CQWW: two surprises via LoTW'»
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Comments Off It’s funny how a certain specific aroma can suddenly transport our memory back in time to an event previously forgotten. To this 
day, the weird combination of diesel fumes and barbecue smoke immediately reminds me of what it felt like to stagger walk down Magsaysay Street in Subic Bay long years ago.
While sorting through my QSL collection last night and trying to arrange them in some order, I was surprised to find Continue reading 'Radio Memory Lane – a QSL collection'»
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