[WIham] Hi Mark,

[Joe]

Hey got something for you to spread the word around about.

You may have seen some of my postings.

But you have a much larger network, care to let as many know as possible 
about this?

Joe WB9SBD

QSW.Me & CQ-QSO Websites Are Open & Ready For Use!

   QSW.Me is a web site that it's sole purpose is to make up schedules 
so one amateur and another amateur can meet at a specific time and 
frequency in an attempt to make a contact for whatever purpose the 
contact is needed.

Yeah, yeah, another scheduling page. But not so fast! This page operates 
a LOT differently than the dozen others out there.

      Are you still looking for that missing state for your 5 band work 
all states? Or that last county you need to finish your worked all 
Wisconsin counties?  Grid squares? Zones?  You bet!

      The DX spotting clusters, networks, and all other types of 
alerting systems work great to alert you when a certain station appears 
on a certain frequency. But you have to also be there ready for when 
they indeed do appear. When does that happen, and on what frequency? Who 
knows? Also mainly these are only good for DXing chases. But if you need 
Montana for a W.A.S., They won't be helping too much.

      Then there are the chat room versions, where you have to monitor 
the chat room, waiting and hoping that a station you want actually 
happens to join in on the chat. You both have to happen to be there at 
the exact same time to be able to find each other. What are the odds of 
that happening. Pretty low.  Yes it does happen.  But I wonder what the 
percentage is of missed possible QSO's could have been because the guy 
you needed just 5 min ago left the room?

      Or the message boards. Say a guy from North Dakota posted that he 
is available, a year ago,  how do you look through all the hundreds of 
postings to find him.  Even if his posting still exists on the server. 
Good luck!

      Or you can join in one of the live on the air nets in the hope a 
station you would like to contact actually shows up. And if they do, 
then have to sit there waiting your "turn" to try to contact them. This 
often can take hours before your "turn" comes around.

      But again this is all random. You just have to be lucky that the 
station you need is also right NOW in that chat room, or the net, or 
being spotted on the spotting systems.

*With this new web site all this "chance" is removed!*

      When you join, you will end up filling out a station profile. This 
profile will store the location of your station,  every band you can 
operate on, and on each band what modes you can operate. Yes it is a 
somewhat tedious data entry, but at least you only have to do it once. 
Or make changes when your stations capabilities change.

 From then on it is really simple.

Say you need Wyoming on 15 meters for your 5BWAS.  You simply go to
   the web site and indicate the filters.

For example you choose:

  * North America
  * Wyoming
  * 15 meters

then hit search and the web site will display every station that it has 
as a member, that is in Wyoming, and that is capable of operating on 15 
meters.

You will also be able to perform detailed searches. As an example:

  * North America
  * Wisconsin
  * Sauk County
  * 40 meters
  * CW
  * Must do LOTW for QSLing

      If someone from there meets all those parameters has registered, 
the web site will display them!

      Once displayed there will be contact information on how to get in 
touch with them to make your schedule.

      We even have a "Tool" that you have access to, that will aid your 
decision of what time is the "Best" Time to try to make the QSO, As an 
example, say On 40 meters, when is the best time that a Station in 
Wisconsin can contact a Station in Arizona? We can tell you that!

      Once a schedule is made we even have a chat room available to meet 
on at the time of the schedule, which is nice for the harder paths. 
Kinda of a "can you hear me now" thing. To see if either station is 
getting any traces of signal and then keep trying. Or give up and try 
again at a different time.

      Everyone that joins, gets their own personal "Message Board"

      There are forums also available for your use.

      As we are a new site we know when you join right now that there 
will be very few people to contact. But please still do fill out a 
profile. It is the only way this will eventually work. The web site 
needs as many as possible to fill out profiles and become a part of this 
effort. If people do not join, this will not work.

It takes a small amount of effort to fill out the profile. And then you 
never need to even look at it again, unless you change your stations 
capabilities. Just go to the web site front page..

http://www.qsw.me/

And watch the introduction video to see how to sign up, and then 
actually do searches.

*And this is all FREE!*

We hope you join us on this new effort to make it easier to find those 
hard to find contacts.

73
The QSW.Me Team
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