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

[Bob Sullivan]

Don,

Very nice! I would be pleased to donate - how would you like payment? 
Paypal? Check?

73, Bob
WØYVA
Personal site: http://www.isquare.com/personal_pages/ras-hardware.htm


At 10:29 PM 11/3/2005, you wrote:
>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