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

[Dennis & Pat Petrich]

Hi Don,

I just got back from the west coast on business and sat down to find 28
emails waiting to be read....  Very good on all your comments, I wish I had
an 80m loop up at 50'.  You should get out pretty good.  Your right about
your 20m comments, I have modeled the 80 and 160m loops with EZNEC and boy
do they get out on the higher bands. 

My Millen station is still waiting for me to build the HV power supply and
power modulator.  Hope I can get it done this winter.

73's for now, Dennis

-----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: Saturday, November 05, 2005 4:29 PM
To: The James Millen Society Members Email Reflector
Subject: Re: [JMS] W1HRX QSL Ready for Review and call for donations

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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