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

[Gary Carter]

Yep, I'm in too! I'll email you concerning the contribution to your 
direct address. Excellent job! Thank Scott for us for the use of his 
original card.

73, Gary - WA4IAM


Don Buska 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
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