[CQ-Contest] Awards: no more wood?

[Andrei Stchislenok]

You cant imagine how Heavy are all those Soviet medals!

If you wear the full line of Brezhnev decoration, you cant walk far, it IS
heavy

2009/3/2 <kr2q at optimum.net>

> Someone said that plaques are heavy, expensive to ship, take a long time,
> etc.
>
> He is right!  And you can't "show them off" unless someone stops by your
> QTH.
>
> How about cashing in your old wooden plaques for medals and ribbons?  Not
> only are they
> less expensive to ship (not sure about cost), but you can wear them to your
> favorite
> ham event and show off in public.
>
> I have always been impressed with the Soviet style of recognition.  They
> really seemed
> to "get it right."  Of course, lots of others do a similar thing.
>
>
> http://images.encarta.msn.com/xrefmedia/sharemed/targets/images/pho/t054/T054776A.jpg
>
> http://members.tripod.com/otlichnik/VP2.jpg
>
> http://www.timesonline.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00206/PETRAEUS_206954a.gif
>
> http://images.huffingtonpost.com/2007-08-25-PaceMedals2005.jpg
>
> http://wwii-militaria.net/images/French_19.jpg
>
> http://www.antoniogiuliano.com/images/ThorntonM.jpg
>
> http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/0ffR2VN7Ft2Qd/340x.jpg
>
> http://myhero.com/images/Community/Noor/g1_u42084_queennoor7.jpg
>
> Couldn't you just imagine yourself at the contest suites with a chest-full
> of medals?
> And what better photo for a M/M than to show off all of their ops than with
> everybody sitting there with a big smile and wearing all those medals of
> achievement?
>
> I think I have a couple CQ-M medals around here somewhere.  There ARE
> pretty cool.
>
> de Doug KR2Q
>
>
>
> tic
>
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