[Mldxcc] Fw: DX/CC Winter Drive for KZ5

[Robert Hess]

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On Tuesday, January 2, 2018, 1:17 PM, Mike Paulson <kz5land at yahoo.com> wrote:


January 02, 2018

The Winter Drive for KZ5

 

Hello All,

Please share with club members and friends.  And before you decide not to, please go lookat the New and Very Improved web site.  https://kz5land.wixsite.com/kz5land.  This is a serious effort by a serioushistorian.

I would like to thank all of you who responded to the summercall.  For my first-time effort, I wasvery happy with the results.  I had 37hams from 22 QCWA Chapters provide 125 scans of cards.  And another 18 hams from 14 ARC’s and DXClubs from Florida and Massachusetts, provide another 68 scans.   There were even a couple who donated theircards.  THANK YOU AGAIN.

I learned one thing from the summer call, it’s going to takea long time to reach all the clubs just in the USA.  I think I’m going to do it alphabetical bystate.  Hi Hi.

My name is Mike Paulson, and I am working to create acomprehensive, historical record of ham operators who were active in the PanamaCanal Zone from 1920 to 1979.  I amseeking to identify all the Canal Zone ham operators through their QSL Cards.  Sound impossible?  Not with your help.

I have already acquired scans of all the Whitehorsecallbooks from 1930 to 1978 and have entered all that info into adatabase.  So, I can determine at leastwho most of the stations and operators were from that period.  I can also tell you that the Archive ismissing a lot of QSL Cards.

You can help by looking through your QSL cards and doing oneof these things:

 1.     Scan the front and back of your KZ5 cardsat 100 dpi and email the scans to me at kz5land at yahoo.com or post them to theFaceBook group I have for the project.

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/532860190101682/   “Canal Zone Ham Operators Archives”.

2.     If you wouldlike, you can send me the cards for scanning and I will return them to you posthaste.  Just include a SASE.

3.     You can donateyour KZ5 cards to the Archive.

If you have 1 card or 21 cards, each and every one isimportant to the effort.  Over the yearsthere were many different operators assigned the same callsign.  There were many stations that had multipleoperators at the same time.  This was dueto the large military turnover.  It allcounts.  I also track card designs. (Asif I didn’t have enough to keep track of.) The only way to make the effort work, is to see the cards.  I also look for CZ issued certificates andlicenses. 

Ultimately, after I have gathered as much information aspossible, I plan to turn it over to a museum or library of Canal Zone or HamRadio history.

I do this to honor my mom, (KZ5MP) and all the other CanalZone Hams. Please, be a part of this effort to record our history.

Please Help, and reply directly to my email address listedbelow.

 

PS.  You would have tobe a ham for at least 40 years just to have made a KZ5 contact.



73

Mike Paulson1323 Blakemore CtTallahassee   FL   32317-8459kz5land at yahoo.com
FaceBook   Canal Zone Ham Operators
Web Site  https://kz5land.wixsite.com/kz5landQRZ   at   KZ5FNPlease remember, your KZ5 cards and documents always have a safe and protected home when archived with KZ5LAND.  




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