[RVRC] Special Guest & Presentation at Sept 28 ETSNJ Meeting

[drew Moore]

RVRC Members,

ETSNJ President, Joe Cash, has extended an invitation to RVRC members  to
attend the September 28th ETSNJ meeting and to have your cards checked and
to hear the NJDXA presentation. Directions can be found on their website at
www.k2ets.com .

73, Drew

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To: ETS MAIL LIST; Peter Dougherty
Subject: [ETS/PARC List] Special Guest & Presentation at Sept 28 ETSNJ
Meeting

We will have a special guest at Septembers ETS of NJ meeting.

Mr. Peter Dougherty W2IRT is the vice president of the North Jersey DX
Association and an ARRL appointed Card Checker for the region.
He will be on hand at the Sept 28th meeting to check QSL cards for those
pursuing DXCC, WAS, WAC or VUCC  awards.

He will also have a short power point presentation on the incoming QSL
bureau system as administered by the North Jersey DX Association.

Members are encouraged to attend, especially if you have cards that need to
be checked or have questions.

I asked W2IRT about the idea of having cards check for future awards-

         "As for checking cards for future awards, that's tricky. If someone
already has the basic award (Worked All States, DXCC, VUCC, etc) and they
want to work on *another* award, that's OK.many folks including yours truly
have done exactly that. For example, if you have your DXCC on Mixed or SSB
but you want to count a handful of QSLs for a 20m award or a CW award, etc,
that's OK. On the other hand, if someone only has 50 countries in total,
that can't be checked; he/she must have at least 100 for a first-ever
application. Likewise, if someone has their basic Worked All States, but
wants to build a CW-only WAS, that's OK. But if they only have 49 states
confirmed I can't check those 49; they'd have to wait until all 50
confirmations are received.

If anybody *does* have cards to check, I'd greatly appreciate if they could
have the paperwork done and cards sorted ahead of time. The ARRL is very
specific about record order and will reject an application that's not filled
out to their own satisfaction (it's not all that important to me, but it is
to the ARRL). Award fees are also payable at the time of checking (payable
to the ARRL, not to me); cash, cheque or credit card
authorization."****

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If you have a specific question for Peter you would like to ask prior to the
meeting, he can be reached at email address peter at w2irt.net


Above information has also been posted on the k2ets.com
homepage<http://www.k2ets.com> .


73

Gene

KC2WDZ