[OKDXA] Need QSL Some Advice...

[Kim Elmore]

This is a splendid idea!!

73,

Kim N5OP 

"People that make music together cannot be enemies, at least as long as the music lasts." -- Paul Hindemith

> On Aug 2, 2021, at 3:30 PM, Jeff Martin <jeffk5we at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> For what it's worth, I checked my log and I worked VU2RAK on 15 CW in March of 2014. No QSLs were exchanged or asked for... at least he was still active 7 years ago... 
> 73,
> Jeff - K5WE
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: okdxa-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:okdxa-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of N5OK
> Sent: Monday, August 02, 2021 3:03 PM
> To: Oklahoma DX Association
> Subject: Re: [OKDXA] Need QSL Some Advice...
> 
> Kim,
> 
> I found two email addresses for VU2RAK:
> vutrak at vsnl.com & vu2rak at yahoo.com
> 
> I would email him and ask if you are in the log.  Then you can bug him
> about a QSL.  😁
> 
> 73, Coy
> 
> Coy C Day, N5OK
> 20685 SW 29
> Union City, OK 73090
> H(405) 483-5632 C(405) 448-2368
> n5ok at arrl.net
> 
> 
>> On Mon, Aug 2, 2021 at 1:54 PM Kim Elmore <cw_de_n5op at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>> 
>> That's sorta what I figured about the VU2. I see CW VUs spotted the
>> evening but I never hear them; maybe as we get closer to the equinox!
>> 
>> Yes, I know FT8 is the newest thing, but... I just got myself a Begali
>> Simplex, so I gotta use it ;) I have to say that there really is a nice
>> difference between it and my Bencher BY1.
>> 
>> 73,
>> 
>> Kim N5OP
>> 
>>> On 8/2/2021 1:31 PM, Jeff Martin wrote:
>>> Hi Kim,
>>>   As much as I hate to say it, you're gonna have to set the key aside
>> and type on the keyboard, work them on FT8. I see lots of VU's on 20, 17,
>> even 40 on FT8... Whatever it takes, DX Is!
>>>   As far as your March 2002 QSO, you are probably throwing your money
>> away at this point... Work another one...
>>> 
>>> 73,
>>> Jeff - K5WE
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: okdxa-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:
>> okdxa-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Kim Elmore
>>> Sent: Monday, August 02, 2021 1:15 PM
>>> To: Oklahoma DX Association
>>> Subject: [OKDXA] Need QSL Some Advice...
>>> 
>>> I have, so far, not heard any of the VU spots that come across in the
>>> evening. I have a few (three) VU QSO's, but no QSLs. My most recent VU
>>> QSO is VU2RAK, who has a QRZ.COM presence and appears in the reverse
>>> beacon network. The QSO is from March 2002 and I show that I sent a QSL
>>> with a couple of dollars to him in January 2004. But I never received
>>> anything back, not even a "SRI NOT IN LOG." Should I try one more time
>>> or, instead, simply wait for a new VU QSO?
>>> 
>>> 73 & CU in the Pileups,
>>> 
>>> Kim N5OP
>>> 
>> --
>> Kim Elmore, Ph
>> 
>> Kim Elmore, Ph.D. (Adj. Assoc. Prof., OU School of Meteorology, CCM, PP
>> SEL/MEL/Glider, UAS, N5OP, 2nd Class Radiotelegraph, GROL)
>> 
>> /“I occasionally play works by contemporary composers and for two
>> reasons. First to discourage the composer from writing any more and
>> secondly to remind myself how much I appreciate Beethoven." – Jascha
>> Heifetz/
>> 
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