On Mon, 7 Jun 2010 15:17:58 -0700 (PDT), bpnjensen
wrote:

On Jun 7, 12:39*pm, wrote:
On Tue, 01 Jun 2010 14:40:22 -0400, wrote:

Jim

QSL received 6/7/2010 from Fanling, Hong Kong for amateur contact
4/19/2010 on 14276 kHz @ 1237 UTC.

Jim

Good show! About how many do you collect a month, Jim? Do you try to
exchange QSLs for each contact?

Bruce

Depends on propagation and what I send for. In March we had some good
propagation so I sent out a bunch of QSL's to the far east. Recently I
sent for a couple local things like the Indy Speedway QSL's. I might
send a card to the new stations I worked in Iceland and Kazakhstan but
then I already have QSL's from those countries.

If someone asks for a QSL, I will send one. I don't exchange with
everyone I talk to. The postage cost is too high. The card I sent to
Hong Kong came back with a $3 stamp and I only sent $2 and self
addressed envelope to cover the return. Now that is a $3 Hong Kong,
China stamp so I don't know what its actually worth but you see where
it can get expensive for all involved.

I just talked to a guy in Cuba with 100 watts while I was sitting here
and he contacted a few stations in Europe so conditons are not bad on
20m. Still waiting to hear Arnie Coro on the air.

Jim