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

[Don Buska]

Hey Bob,

Guess I should have mentioned payment methods.  Check to the qrz or JMS 
roster for N9OO address is fine.  Also paypal to my ID dbuska at wi.rr.com 
would also be fine for those who use it.

Thanks for asking es 73

Don N9OO


Bob Sullivan wrote:

> 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
>
>
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