K3IRV will answer all received cards both by the bureau and direct. If you send your QSL card direct, please enclose a Self Addressed Envelope (SAE) with your QSL, IRC's or GREENSTAMP'S. Only IRC's with a HOLOGRAM will be accepted.

Cards received that do not have sufficient return funds/stamps/IRCs will be answered via the bureau.  

Due to the increased price of QSL Cards and the proposed increase in International Postage, K3IRV has requested donations be included with all direct requests whether they be from DX stations or US stations. 

Many thanks and 73!

Any requests for QSL's that have been sent to any other Manager previous to 2002 for T32Z contacts has been lost. All older logs are not recoverable, T32Z regrets that this is a matter that was beyond his control.

Kiritimati was a major military base in the 1950's and 1960's for nuclear weapons testing. The testing was atmospheric and took place mostly offshore. Apparently no trace of radioactive contamination remains.

Pronounced “Ki-ris-mas,” Kiritimati Island has a large infilled lagoon that gives it the largest land area (125 square miles, 321 square km) of any atoll in the world. Captain Cook named the atoll Christmas Island when he arrived on Christmas Eve in 1777. Used for nuclear testing in the 1950s and 1960s, the island is now valued for its marine and wildlife resources. It is particularly important as a seabird nesting site—with an estimated 6 million birds using or breeding on the island, including several million Sooty Terns. Rainfall on Kiritimati is linked to El Niño patterns, with long droughts experienced between the wetter El Niño years.

Kiribati Kiritimati (Christmas Island [part of the Line Islands]) Christmas Island is the largest coral atoll in the world with an area of 248 square miles of which 125 square miles is land and the remainder lagoon. It is 2,015 miles from Tarawa, capital of the Republic of Kiribati; 1,335 miles from Honolulu; 4,000 miles from Sydney, Australia and 3,250 miles from San Francisco. It lies between longitude 157 degrees 10' west and 157 degrees 34' west and latitudes 1 degree 42' north and 2 degrees 3' north. It is 145 miles north of the equator. Christmas Island is world-class, miles of coral sand, iridescent lagoons and coconut palms – what seems like one of the smallest places on earth is actually a geographical giant, the planet's largest coral atoll. Tossed up over millennia by the pounding surf, it rests just above the waves on an ancient reef, the reef which ages ago ringed the undersea volcano thrusting it three miles up from the ocean floor. A microcosm of terrestrial life, a world of sea and sky, it's a tropical oasis, a nesting place for millions of seabirds, dominated by the teeming empire from which it barely protrudes.

Rainfall is low, except during El Nino years, so fine weather is more or less guaranteed.