Re: [IRCA] QSLs

["CHARLES HUTTON" <charlesh3@xxxxxxx>]

My problem with the CPRV approach is that we can count on one hand the 
number of DXers that will be able to see their collection.

The U of M is - in effect - serving as just a giant archiving & storage 
center and not as a tool to make the QSL's accessible to the radio hobby 
community.

Were I to have a collection of QSL's (as opposed to the paltry few I have), 
I'd explore having club  volunteers scan them, place them on the web, and 
store them on CD / DVD's.

What I do have are 35 years of recordings of TA's, LA's and TP's. I wonder 
what will happen to them?


Chuck


>From: "Bill Harms" <wharms@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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>Subject: Re: [IRCA] QSLs
>Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2006 14:24:46 -0400
>
>For the record, last year I went down to College Park (University of
>Maryland) to look at QSLs from the Spokane Washington radio stations.
>The staff was very accommodating and even let me handle the QSLs.
>They will copy the QSLs to jpegs for a price, or you can make black
>and white photo copies.  Overall, my experience was very good.
>
>If someone is concerned about their collections being properly taken
>care of, the University of Maryland's CPRV collection would be a good
>place to bequeath their treasures.
>
>You can find some of the QSLs that I saw at the U of M on my Spokane
>Radio History web page http://spokane.philcobill.com/index.php under
>the individual radio station entries (Not in Bill QSL Gallery). Some
>of you may recognize the names of people like Roy Millar.
>
>Bill Harms
>Elkridge, Maryland.
>
>On 7 Aug 2006 at 9:09, Russ Edmunds wrote:
>
> > *** There are a couple of options - one being the ANARC CPRV (
> > Committee to Preserve Radio Verifications" collection which is now
> > housed at the University of Maryland in College Park. There are also a
> > couple of people in NRC who have picked up collections from others
> > although neither are actively DX'ing now nor inactive in the club AFAIK.
> >
> > There were some issues earlier on with availability of the CPRV
> > collection prior to and shortly after it got to UMD which resulted in 
>some
> > of the other collections not going there.
>
>
>
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