[JMS] W1HRX QSL Ready for Review and call for donations

[Don Buska]

Good Day JMS Members,

I have uploaded a sample of the new JMS W1HRX QSL card to this URL:

http://home.wi.rr.com/n9oo/w1hrx_qsl.html

The actual graphics will be better, but to conserve space and speed up 
downloading these are only a little over 100K in size.  The back side 
was also an export to jpg from Corel Draw which never does look good.  
The original back side text is very clear.  For those who don't know the 
front side of this QSL is modeled after the original James Millen W1HRX 
QSL from the mid-30's.  The only change is Jim's address on the front 
has been replaced with our society name.

So where do we go from here?  Well  now I seek your monetary donations 
to produce 1000 minimum of this card.  The last batch of QSL's (1000) 
for the JMS 100th Birthday celebration ran me a little bit over $100.  
So my plans are to hold off submitting the new generic W1HRX cards until 
I receive and hit the $100 mark.  I would like to get the order off  to 
the printer near the beginning of December.  The final quantity printed 
will be determined by the amount of  greenbacks collected at the time of 
order.  I will keep the group posted as donations are received during 
this month and beyond on a weekly basis. 

Try to get donations in early.  All donations will be kept confidential, 
except for a personnal thank you email from me as a confirmation of receipt.

We were a much smaller group back in 2001 when we celebrated the 100th 
Anniversary of Millen's Birth using the W1HRX call at the AWA annex.  
The donations back then only covered about half the cost of printing the 
1000 cards.

For all who submit a donation this time around please let me know if you 
want a sample QSL from the 100th Anniversary event.  That QSL card has 
two B&W photos on the front of the old 1930's Millen station, currently 
located at the AWA Annex, and my personnal Millen setup which was used 
on the final Saturday of that operation.  We sent out around 100 cards 
for that operation so I have plenty to provide as collector items.  Just 
like a PBS fund drive;  Donate and we send you a gift, hi hi.

Soon we will be announcing the next upcoming W1HRX operating event which 
will use the newly designed QSL's.  All monies collected will go toward 
QSL's.  Excess will be converted to US postal stamps and supplied to 
future JMS W1HRX callsign users to offset mailing of the JMS cards to 
those contacts which fail to provide SASE's with their QSL's.

Stay-tuned es 73

Don N9OO