(14-MAY-2012) On R+R until WPX CW. I am answering direct QSLs cards received up until now.

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If you already have a contact on a band then please allow other people to get a contact.

Be patient while attempting a QSO. I will be here for a while.

No need to send your call when I'm trying to copy someone else!

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Grid MM44 (before 13SEP11) Near Kabul

Grid MM21 (after 13SEP11) Helmand Province

QSL via K9GY

Check either LoTW or ClubLog for a valid QSO before sending a QSL card or asking if you're in the log!

I upload to ARRL LoTW and ClubLog periodically (uploaded as of  15 MAY 2012).

If you are not in my log then no QSL will be sent. Simple as that.

USA: SASE (no return postage, no return QSL)

Outside USA: SAE + $2 USD (or) SAE + 1 IRC

(if you don't have an envelope and funds to return the QSL then no QSL will be returned)

Bureau cards can take SIX months to TWO years to make the round-trip return to you.

No 30m operation allowed here per Theater Spectrum Mgmt.

Radio Yaesu FT-857D

Antenna: Radiowavz 40m DX (OCFD) Windom (covers 40 - 10 m with tuner)

No 160m or 80m at this time.

Contests entered:

2011 All-Asian DX Contest CW SOAB-LP 281 QSOs + 94 Mults = 68,714

2011 IARU SOAB-CW 208 QSOs + 36 Zones + 30 HQ Stns = 55,308

2011 WAE CW SOAB-LP 723 QSOs + 640 QTCs + 125 Multipliers = 382,616

2011 WW CW SOAB-LP 1,619 QSOs + 67 Zones + 203 Countries = 1,181,250 (new Afghanistan record)

2011 ARRL 10m SOLP-CW 549 QSOs + 54 Multipliers = 118,584

2012 Russian DX Contest SOAB-LP (CW) 475 QSOs + 100 Oblasts + 117 Countries = 690,277 (new Afghanistan record)

2012 CQ WPX SSB SOLP(10m) 300 QSOs + 205 prefixes = 163,180

2012 Yuri Gagarin SOAB-LP 202 QSOs + 30 ITU zones = 35,280 (estimate)

2012 CQ WPX CW SOAB-LP (goal is a new Afghanistan record)

Hope to work you in a CONTEST!

73, Eric