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VE3WBZ > QSL 05.03.06 12:17l 148 Lines 6533 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
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Subj: Replying to KB2VXA ;)
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From: VE3WBZ@VE3FJB.#CON.ON.CAN.NOAM
To : QSL@WW
TO:QSL@WW
FR:VE3WBZ@VE3FJB.#CON.ON.CAN.NOAM
DT:Sunday,March 5th.,2006 @0500hrs EST
Hello Warren KB2VXA and all readers and QSL Carding folks too,
from myself and the Peter readers reading whatever.,
<<< Quoting KB2VXA to QSL@WW >>>
>From : KB2VXA To : QSL @WW
>Type/Status : B$ Date/Time : 01-Mar 01:13
>Bid : 50045_NJ2AR Message # : 224274
>Title : Re: VE3WBZ > QSLing Andy
>
>Since the fall of the government of The Republic of
>Andy Pandy Land and mass exodus of the population leaving but
>one (Andy) it has ceased to be a DXCC entity.
Hmmm...well that might explain why on www.orkut.com I started
a community called the "Centre of the Universe" <Jackson's Point>
telling everyone why I separated from the town. Even calling it
the "Republic of Jackson's Point"...but I had no mass exodus yet
and no parting of the lake. I'm glad it isn't the Red Sea..or
it would have been the People's Republic...hee
Warren, what ever happened to that character who was on about
"Bob" downunder in OZ ? First he was gone, then resurrected
and then on the way to OZ for whatever reason??? Oh yeah
just got his call or a part...before the croc got'm EBT.,
Is he gone again <G>???
> The buro no
>longer handles QSLs since dropping it from the registry so
>it's unlikely that Andy will QSL, it is possible postal service
>has been also discontinued since I can no longer find the postal
>code. Never mind his sour grape excuses and lame attempt to
>discourage the rest of us from QSLing, one of our long standing
>traditions. Just think of him as a fiddler on the roof without
>a fiddle. TRADITION! (;->)
Yeah! QSL'ing isn't dead yet. It is however threatened by the
activities of something called the "QSL buro" as you say. I got
a QSL via this "buro" thingme. They then sent me a letter demanding
so many QSL cards, and some money to cover them mailing them. Then
they sent me a bill. I wrote them back, and in return they told
me they were blacklisting me < chuckles>. I told them they could
blacklist..white wash..and do whatever they wanted...so long as
they never throw me into tha briar patch. Please ol buro don't
throw me into the briar patch. ...I haven't heard from them
since, and I get QSL cards, and return same via the post office
and enjoy it the way it should be enjoyed.
>How well I remember SWL cards and all the variations the CBers
>came up with including the business sized eyeball cars with
>eyeballs printed on them. Wallpaper cards were also popular and
>cheap, just supply the roll and have some high school kid print
>them up in Shop. My Popular Electronics WPE2MTN card pictured me
>in my native environment, a mess of parts strewn around the room
>and a soldering iron burning a hole in the bed. That BTW was
>inspired by a real event, I set my bed on fire!
>Sometimes I got a whole envelope stuffed with "via" cards and a
>handful of eyeballs from CBers all over the US but unfortunately
>none from Canada, not even from my tour of the St. Lawrence,
>but never mind those Quebecois.
Unfortunately, I never had or thought of SWL QSL cards from my
listening station. Only sent out cards from the CB <GRS> and
Amateur Stations. Never had business type "EyeBall cards"
They were mostly of the QSL card size when on that theme.
Must say the eyeballs were well done...wonder if this was done
via a mirror...to perhaps represent a weekend spent all night?
As for no cards from Canada...Sorry about that. I nearly switched
from wallpaper to vinyl to allow them to take printing better as
well be waterproof...but well they were "one of a kind" and
numbered and registered. being in the location I was, the cards
came in from all over. Wish I had the ham station where I had
the CB and SWL...
>I had so much fun at "coffee breaks" from small meetings at a
>local diner to national events, CB was great fun until the
>mid 70s when like you said, it went nuts. It became like that
>famous rat experiment, when the population outstripped the
>environment they fed on each other until all that is left are a
>few linearized loud mouths up in Essex County and a few lonely
>truckers on the New Jersey Turnpike. Even when 11M was wide
>open a few years ago all I heard were a few Mexicans and UK
>freebanders on 10M. (Hola onze metros, esto es la cucaracha
>de la Caribe Puerto Rico,cambio cambio adelante!)
I loved the "coffee breaks" too! I still enjoy the same with
Amateur Radio, and well with the BBS, when it was online, I enjoyed
the same. Very much missed, but there is still the hammie coffee
breaks we have all the time in the local "chew n choke".
I too remembered the rat experiment. It still comes on TV once
in awhile, and I still believe what they are trying to tell the
world, but oh well, the humans don't and never will get the
message. Yeah just like the lonely trucker up here being thrown
about the truck babbling in his phoney southern drawl.
>Now take another look at those QSL cards plastering the wall in
>the movie Wavelength and notice they're mostly quite authentic
>CB cards from the NYC metro area issued in the late '60s. Maybe
>that Heathkit was tweaked down to 11M, niether used an Amateur
>or any callsign for that matter.
Saw that movie too! And the QSL cards. I liked it better then
the CB movie which had me laughing so hard. That was "Citizens Band".
Never seen that movie on in an long time.
>(;->)
>
>QSLers unite, stamp out Andy! (;->)
>
If you stamp out Andy on a card...you might have to pay a royality?
Or DAVE EBT might drop by your place after he comes back from the
outback where he is doing-it-to BOB. I thought he was on his way
for a holiday over here in Ontario...but then he left,,then was back
and then on a tear over some legal beagle thing...oh well.
>73 de Warren, KB2VXA@NJ2AR.#CNJ.NJ.USA.NOAM
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>Message timed by NIST: 23:27 on 2006-Feb-28 GMT
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>[End of Message #224274 from KB2VXA]
Well Warren...glad to see you back. I miss you and BOB! I miss
Dave too...I think that was his name. I guess after all the banning
and upmanship and being cute and whatever....oh well life goes on
ttfn
73 Peter VE3WBZ
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