My station log from 08FEB09 till 13MAY13 has been uploaded to LOTW. I upload to LOTW every few days typically, depending on my activity on the bands.
I'll upload to eQSL if necessary --- let me know. (I don't like eQSL for several reasons but I'll be happy to accommodate your request for eQSL if needed.) I have AG status.
I don't collect paper QSL cards unless the other station doesn't use LOTW. I will answer QSL card requests. I appreciate your SASE for domestic cards requested directly. Similarly, I also like postage for direct card requests for DX stations. I use the ARRL Bureau for most DX cards. If you have requested a card from me and have not received it within a reasonable time, then let me know by e-mail. (Occasionally, the US Post Office loses my mail or delivers it to my neighbors.) Similarly, if you need e-QSL and I haven't done the upload routinely within a reasonable time, then an e-mail to me will get this fixed. I do respond to all QSL requests so, if you don't get your card or electronic confirmation from me, then there's some problem somewhere --- and we can get this issue resolved.
Sometimes I am asked to confirm contacts with LOTW --- and send paper QSL cards through the bureau for these contacts too. I don't quite understand this. However, if you *do* need a paper card in addition to a LOTW confirmation, then you should send me yours first. Otherwise, I am unlikely to track the double request --- and I have more interesting things to do than run a bureaucracy.
Here are the QSL problems I encounter: (1) wrong callsign on card, (2) wrong UT date, (3) wrong UT time or use of your local clock time instead of UT, (4) not in log, (5) indecipherable handwriting and (6) other incorrect information about the contact that renders the card unusable for awards. #4 happens because of crowded bands and/or poor conditions. But again, if you feel there's an error on my part, then let me know and we'll get things straightened out. I'll try to contact you by e-mail if I have some problem with your card.
Please do not request a card from me unless you do need it for some award, or you really want a paper QSL, or for some other compelling reason. I have many cards from each of a few individual stations for essentially bread-and-butter contacts on HF, usually during contests. The US is not a rare entity, and New Mexico is not a rare state on HF. I don't begrudge the costs of the cards but I do bristle at the time it takes to respond to these "automatic" requests. I'd rather be on the air making contacts than doing paperwork. And, remember, Logbook of the World and e-QSL are faster and cheaper.
I will take requests for scheduled contacts for DM65 or NM for most conventional modes on HF and 6m.
I have been licensed continuously since 1981 but did not operate much between 1992 and 2008. My current station is modest --- 100W to a 43 foot vertical. I operate on HF mostly, and usually CW and digital modes. Occasionally, I am on meteor scatter with WSJT on 6 metres - 100W to a 5-element M2 beam. I am building up my 2m EME station. I also hold the UK call G4NDH.
Bill
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9U4U DXpedition
I'm not sure why they are bothering. They have a very slow QSO rate, and they have fairly weak signals on all bands I've heard them on. Of course, this just feeds the frustration and the pile-ups don't seem to shrink. But, of course, the deserving in Europe and East Coast USA will get their QSOs.
VK9NT "training wheels" visit to Norfolk Island
I have given up on working them. As of today, May 7, they are working one contact every minute on 14.009 MHz on average. Sometimes minutes go by while they try to tease apart the wall-to-wall callers. They have no pattern, the exchanges have extraneous fluff, and they are rattling along at about 22 wpm. It's not a DXpedition.
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TPA# 381
Completed 160m CW WAS 07FEB11
SKCC# 7176T, NAQCC# 5356
Recent changes:
Revised: 14MAY13 @ 1050z
