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

Sun Nov 6 08:29:19 EST 2005

Yea Don, it was great having our Millen-to-Millen AM QSO on 40 meters 
yesterday morning! The 80 meter loop is doing a great job for you, as 
your 20 watts carrier output was putting a consistent S7-S9 on the 
Collins 75A-4 here in NC. Not bad! Strange though that you're only 
getting 20 watts carrier output from your 90801 on 40 meters when I'm 
getting 30 watts out on mine, and on 75 meters I can squeeze 35 watts 
out of it usually. Your transmitter and modulator sound fine, and after 
hearing yours I'm convinced that I'm going to have to switch to a D-104 
mic from the Shure 70H that I'm presently using just to add a bit of low 
frequencies to my audio. Hey, if anyone on the reflector has a good 
working D-104 with the original mic stand that doesn't have the 
push-to-talk bar switch on it and wants to trade for a good D-104 that 
does have the push-to-talk stand, send me an email and let me know!

73, Gary - WA4IAM

Don Buska wrote:

> Hi Dennis,
>
> I heard you too, but the XYL was calling down the stairs and she 
> didn't realize I was talking on the radio.  I figured I'd better go up 
> and find out what she wanted before she thought I was playing 
> hard-of-hearing.  Yeah after Gary and I were wrapping it up everyone 
> came out of the woodwork and your right 50's ham band is probably what 
> it sounded like.  Since I was born in 1958 I can only relate on a 
> "wish I was there" level.  Then again I guess most of wish we could 
> have experienced what it was like in the twenties when Spark was being 
> replaced by CW.
>
> I'll be playing more with my new 80 meter fullwave horizontal loop 
> this winter.  I bet it does well on 20 meters where it will be four 
> wavelengths in size.  I figured it would do well on 40.  On 80M it is 
> very close to a double-bazooka I have at 50 feet, but it is a bit 
> lower in noise level.
>
> 73
>
> Don N9OO
>
>
> Dennis & Pat Petrich wrote:
>
>> Hi Don, heard you on 40m this morning; Gave you a call but the 
>> frequency was
>> crowded; Reminds me of the late 50's....
>>
>> The QSL looks great!
>>
>> Dennis, k0eoo
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: james_millen_society-bounces at mailman.qth.net
>> [mailto:james_millen_society-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of 
>> Don Buska
>> Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 9:29 PM
>> To: The James Millen Society Members Email Reflector
>> Subject: [JMS] W1HRX QSL Ready for Review and call for donations
>>
>> 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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