Topband: Remotes

[Lee Hiers]

Here you go:

http://www.hamstuff.com/QView/qslholders.html

73 de Lee, AA4GA


On Tue, Feb 6, 2024 at 5:37 PM Steve Harrison <k0xp at k0xp.com> wrote:

> On 2/6/2024 1:34 PM, Jim Brown wrote:
> > Because of what I view as this abuse of the Bureau, I stopped sending
> > JA cards about ten years ago.
>
> Five years ago, when I was first beginning to finally accumulate paper
> cards for my finally-applied-for-first DXCC, thanks to OQRS (in the end,
> I did have to reluctantly use LoTW to apply), the JA cards were some of
> those my 98-yr-old father most liked to examine most closely. Unlike
> W/K/VE cards, I don't know that I've received all that many JA cards
> that looked exactly like one another, other than perhaps the
> usually-pastel colors.
>
> To me, the biggest problem with paper cards, these days, is finding the
> good ole-fashioned display sleeves with which to hang them on my walls.
> When visitors came to my shack, their eyes weren't drawn to the several
> CQ or ARRL contest certificates or other such mundane operating awards
> that mean nothing to anybody but another contester or DXer; instead,
> they almost immediately go over to awe at the various colorful QSL
> cards, many with pretty pictures on the front. When I would explain the
> ones for topband (obligatory topband content 8-), they would be
> astounded that one could actually talk to somebody halfway around the
> world almost on the AM broadcast band with just a little dinky wire
> antenna and the several pieces of equipment on my desk.
>
> Steve, K0XP
>
>
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