About a week ago, I got an envelope full of QSL cards from the FISTS QSL Bureau, and today a packet arrived from the ARRL Bureau. About half the cards in the Fists envelope were from guys I worked in the Fall Sprint. Two of the hams I worked in the Sprint were WB4JJJ and W8III. With those cards, I think I now have about ten or eleven cards where the suffix are all the same letter.

A couple of months ago, I subscribed to the Elecraft mailing list as I was thinking of building a K1. I’m still thinking about it, but even if I never buy one, I think I’ll stick with the mailling list. The reason is that there’s just a lot of good ham radio information on it.

Tuning around on 40m yesterday, I ran into two contests:

Nearly every ham who also has Net access knows about eHam and QRZ.Com, but from time to time I run across other ham radio websites that deserve a little publicity. So here goes:

From the comics section of the Ann Arbor News, Sunday, 11/2/03:

Q: How do you greet a ham radio operator?

A. With a short wave.