Young Nick wrote:

And hundreds, perhaps thousands, "qualified" for this nonsense many years
ago but are simply not interested in silly bits of paper stuck on their
walls.

That gets said a lot but I wonder if anybody can name just one ham that
worked enough "honor roll" countries that didn't bother with QSLs or the
certificate?
O' course without the cards there's no proof and some ol' fart growling
that he has "worked all them g..d... places" when in fact all he has
worked is a few Central American countries (and maybe France) seems to
be the norm for such claims.
People who don't chase the carrot aren't going to stumble on it by
accident - certainly not with an attitude.

-Bill

Young Nick wrote:

And hundreds, perhaps thousands, "qualified" for this nonsense many years
ago but are simply not interested in silly bits of paper stuck on their
walls.

That gets said a lot but I wonder if anybody can name just one ham that
worked enough "honor roll" countries that didn't bother with QSLs or the
certificate?
O' course without the cards there's no proof and some ol' fart growling
that he has "worked all them g..d... places" when in fact all he has
worked is a few Central American countries (and maybe France) seems to
be the norm for such claims.
People who don't chase the carrot aren't going to stumble on it by
accident - certainly not with an attitude.

-Bill

Phil wrote:

We discussed this very thing a few nights ago when I had a QSO with Jesus,
Mohammed and the Easter Bunny. Of course, since it is beneath my dignity to
collect postcards, you just have to take my word for it that I had this

What country does the Easter Bunny count for? Did you
get his manager/route?



_______________________________________________
Ken Kuzenski AC4RD kuzen001 at acpub .duke .edu
_______________________________________________
All disclaimers apply, see? www.duke.edu/~kuzen001

Phil wrote:

We discussed this very thing a few nights ago when I had a QSO with Jesus,
Mohammed and the Easter Bunny. Of course, since it is beneath my dignity to
collect postcards, you just have to take my word for it that I had this

What country does the Easter Bunny count for? Did you
get his manager/route?



_______________________________________________
Ken Kuzenski AC4RD kuzen001 at acpub .duke .edu
_______________________________________________
All disclaimers apply, see? www.duke.edu/~kuzen001

One call for the Easter Bunny is IM1BUGS/CEØ two ops Bugs & Peter (Rabbit
Brothers) -- Counts for Easter Island -- QSL Via IMØQSL

Hard to work as they were jammed by IM1FUD Handle Elmer

Old timers swear they worked the Easter Bunny with call sign NØEGG, and
NØDOG -- but alas they were really SL1MS and P1RTE doing their usual things.

Round up the usual jammers -- Rains in the movie CasaBlanker


From ANØN

P.S. I know lots of Hams who have worked DXCC Mixed, Phone, and CW who do
not collect or submit cards. Some with counts in the high 200's

Why -- too cheap, beneath their dignity to collect postcards, tis a personal
achievent, and from the treasure of Sierra Madre ----- QSL cards QSL card --
I don't gotta show you no stinkin QSL cards.





wrote in message
...
Phil wrote:

We discussed this very thing a few nights ago when I had a QSO with
Jesus,
Mohammed and the Easter Bunny. Of course, since it is beneath my
dignity to
collect postcards, you just have to take my word for it that I had this

What country does the Easter Bunny count for? Did you
get his manager/route?



_______________________________________________
Ken Kuzenski AC4RD kuzen001 at acpub .duke .edu
_______________________________________________
All disclaimers apply, see? www.duke.edu/~kuzen001

One call for the Easter Bunny is IM1BUGS/CEØ two ops Bugs & Peter (Rabbit
Brothers) -- Counts for Easter Island -- QSL Via IMØQSL

Hard to work as they were jammed by IM1FUD Handle Elmer

Old timers swear they worked the Easter Bunny with call sign NØEGG, and
NØDOG -- but alas they were really SL1MS and P1RTE doing their usual things.

Round up the usual jammers -- Rains in the movie CasaBlanker


From ANØN

P.S. I know lots of Hams who have worked DXCC Mixed, Phone, and CW who do
not collect or submit cards. Some with counts in the high 200's

Why -- too cheap, beneath their dignity to collect postcards, tis a personal
achievent, and from the treasure of Sierra Madre ----- QSL cards QSL card --
I don't gotta show you no stinkin QSL cards.





wrote in message
...
Phil wrote:

We discussed this very thing a few nights ago when I had a QSO with
Jesus,
Mohammed and the Easter Bunny. Of course, since it is beneath my
dignity to
collect postcards, you just have to take my word for it that I had this

What country does the Easter Bunny count for? Did you
get his manager/route?



_______________________________________________
Ken Kuzenski AC4RD kuzen001 at acpub .duke .edu
_______________________________________________
All disclaimers apply, see? www.duke.edu/~kuzen001

P.S. I know lots of Hams who have worked DXCC Mixed, Phone, and CW who do
not collect or submit cards. Some with counts in the high 200's

Why -- too cheap, beneath their dignity to collect postcards, tis a personal
achievent, and from the treasure of Sierra Madre ----- QSL cards QSL card --
I don't gotta show you no stinkin QSL cards.


Based on previously given statistics:

"over 38,000 Amateurs world wide have the DXCC awards"

It seems like a relatively small percentage of the ham population
collect post cards and redeem them for DXCC awards.

If 38,000 U.S. amateurs had DXCC awards, that would be 5.5% of
the total U.S. ham population, which was 684,637 as of 7/01/2003.

So we can assume that over 95% of U.S. licensed hams don't play
DXCC - which means it is totally acceptable not to collect post cards
and play DXCC and still be a ham.

Looks like lots of hams still measure things with a ruler instead of
with DXCC clicks.....

Long version is he http://kh2d.net/opinions/article.cfm?id=5

73, Jim KH2D

P.S. I know lots of Hams who have worked DXCC Mixed, Phone, and CW who do
not collect or submit cards. Some with counts in the high 200's

Why -- too cheap, beneath their dignity to collect postcards, tis a personal
achievent, and from the treasure of Sierra Madre ----- QSL cards QSL card --
I don't gotta show you no stinkin QSL cards.


Based on previously given statistics:

"over 38,000 Amateurs world wide have the DXCC awards"

It seems like a relatively small percentage of the ham population
collect post cards and redeem them for DXCC awards.

If 38,000 U.S. amateurs had DXCC awards, that would be 5.5% of
the total U.S. ham population, which was 684,637 as of 7/01/2003.

So we can assume that over 95% of U.S. licensed hams don't play
DXCC - which means it is totally acceptable not to collect post cards
and play DXCC and still be a ham.

Looks like lots of hams still measure things with a ruler instead of
with DXCC clicks.....

Long version is he http://kh2d.net/opinions/article.cfm?id=5

73, Jim KH2D

wrote:

Based on previously given statistics:

"over 38,000 Amateurs world wide have the DXCC awards"

It seems like a relatively small percentage of the ham population
collect post cards and redeem them for DXCC awards.

If 38,000 U.S. amateurs had DXCC awards, that would be 5.5% of
the total U.S. ham population, which was 684,637 as of 7/01/2003.

So we can assume that over 95% of U.S. licensed hams don't play
DXCC - which means it is totally acceptable not to collect post cards
and play DXCC and still be a ham.

Looks like lots of hams still measure things with a ruler instead of
with DXCC clicks.....

Long version is he http://kh2d.net/opinions/article.cfm?id=5

73, Jim KH2D


Lots of hams have never turned on anything more than a 2 meter
handy-talkie and aren't interested in DXing anyway...much less award
chasing. Fine. DXCC is not a requirement for anything.

Now if instead of the 684,637 total hams (that includes Novices, Techs,
etc) you would use the number of DX-interested hams I think you'd find a
very large percentage, probably well over half.

-Bill

wrote:

Based on previously given statistics:

"over 38,000 Amateurs world wide have the DXCC awards"

It seems like a relatively small percentage of the ham population
collect post cards and redeem them for DXCC awards.

If 38,000 U.S. amateurs had DXCC awards, that would be 5.5% of
the total U.S. ham population, which was 684,637 as of 7/01/2003.

So we can assume that over 95% of U.S. licensed hams don't play
DXCC - which means it is totally acceptable not to collect post cards
and play DXCC and still be a ham.

Looks like lots of hams still measure things with a ruler instead of
with DXCC clicks.....

Long version is he http://kh2d.net/opinions/article.cfm?id=5

73, Jim KH2D


Lots of hams have never turned on anything more than a 2 meter
handy-talkie and aren't interested in DXing anyway...much less award
chasing. Fine. DXCC is not a requirement for anything.

Now if instead of the 684,637 total hams (that includes Novices, Techs,
etc) you would use the number of DX-interested hams I think you'd find a
very large percentage, probably well over half.

-Bill