[ETS/PARC List] Special Guest & Presentation at Sept 28 ETSNJ Meeting

[KC2WDZ]

We will have a special guest at Septembers ETS of NJ meeting.

Mr. Peter Dougherty W2IRT is the vice president of the North Jersey DX
Association and an ARRL appointed Card Checker for the region.
He will be on hand at the Sept 28th meeting to check QSL cards for
those pursuing
DXCC, WAS, WAC or VUCC  awards.

He will also have a short power point presentation on the incoming QSL
bureau system as administered by the North Jersey DX Association.

Members are encouraged to attend, especially if you have cards that need to
be checked or have questions.

I asked W2IRT about the idea of having cards check for future awards-

         "As for checking cards for future awards, that's tricky. If
someone already has the basic award (Worked All States, DXCC, VUCC, etc)
and they want to work on *another* award, that's OK…many folks including
yours truly have done exactly that. For example, if you have your DXCC on
Mixed or SSB but you want to count a handful of QSLs for a 20m award or a
CW award, etc, that's OK. On the other hand, if someone only has 50
countries in total, that can't be checked; he/she must have at least 100
for a first-ever application. Likewise, if someone has their basic Worked
All States, but wants to build a CW-only WAS, that's OK. But if they only
have 49 states confirmed I can't check those 49; they'd have to wait until
all 50 confirmations are received.

If anybody *does* have cards to check, I'd greatly appreciate if they could
have the paperwork done and cards sorted ahead of time. The ARRL is very
specific about record order and will reject an application that's not
filled out to their own satisfaction (it's not all that important to me,
but it is to the ARRL). Award fees are also payable at the time of checking
(payable to the ARRL, not to me); cash, cheque or credit card
authorization."****

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If you have a specific question for Peter you would like to ask prior to
the meeting, he can be reached at email address peter at w2irt.net


Above information has also been posted on the k2ets.com
homepage<http://www.k2ets.com>
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73

Gene

KC2WDZ