Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] Verie collection

[Russ Edmunds <wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxx>]

Not an unreasonable position at all. The next logical question would be, and I think it's implied within the response, if someone wanted to cull their collection and submit a smaller number of special QSL's, how that would work out. My
feeling would be that Ben's might well be - in and of itself, as is - a qualified exception.

I could probably reduce my collection to maybe a dozen QSL's across two locations.

Russ Edmunds
15 mi NNW of Philadelphia  
Grid FN20id
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On Tue, 3/18/14, John <johncallarman@xxxxxxx> wrote:

 Subject: [NRC-AM] Verie collection
 To: "NRC List" <am@xxxxxxxxxxx>
 Date: Tuesday, March 18, 2014, 4:52 PM
 
 
 
 
 Here is Jerry Berg's update on the
 CPRV program's current status:
  
        Our website < http://www.ontheshortwaves.com/cprv.html>
 is part of www.ontheshortwaves.com.
 Since we went into the QSL preservation business in 1986 we
 have solicited some collections, and many others have come
 in over the transom.  Until recently we accepted most
 that came our way.  However, it was becoming clear
 that, because of the amount of material we had amassed, most
 collections that we were receiving, including even those
 from some of the best DXers, were duplicative of material
 that we already had.  This is a standard problem with
 archival projects--you can't keep accepting everything
 forever.  To keep adding duplicates doesn't add
 much historical value, and archival space is precious. 
 As a result, as our website says (and as I explained in a
 letter sent to all those who had registered their
 collections with us), we are no longer accepting collections
 on a general basis, but we are limiting our intake to
 collections that have special historical significance and
 are not mainly duplicative of material already in the
 collection.  Our website invites DXers who feel that
 they have any such items to contact us.  So our door
 remains open.
          From the
 outset our priority has been to get original QSLs (as
 opposed to copies) "under roof" before they wind
 up on the curb or in the dumpster.  To us it is a
 matter of preserving radio history--in many cases QSLs are
 all that remains of a station.  We have a small number
 of QSLs posted on our website in the "CPRV QSL
 Gallery," but this was never meant to be more than an
 illustration of some of the material we have.  Display
 has never been our principal goal, in part because CPRV has
 always been a modest, hobby-based project, and strictly a
 volunteer effort (with me as the main volunteer).  More
 importantly, since there was no QSL repository when we
 started, it was important for us to "catch up" and
 save as much as we could.  That is basically what we
 have been doing
          On the
 other hand, we have always been hopeful that some day more
 of the collection might be available for general enjoyment
 and that someone might come along to take that on. 
 There was no internet when we started.  With
 today's technology it would certainly be feasible to
 have more of this material on the web.  It would really
 have to be a whole separate project, however, a kind of
 "CPRV 2.0" (an open question is how much effort
 could be justified for what would probably be a very small
 audience).  With yours truly having turned 70 last
 year, it definitely would have to be somebody else's
 initiative.  But the QSLs are there, and in the hands
 of the right person something good could surely be developed
 (and issues like what to display--common/rare,
 new/old--could be dealt with).  In the end, like most
 hobby-based projects, it would likely wind up being one
 person's "labor of love."
  
 
 John Callarman, KA9SPA, Family Genealogist, Retired
 Newspaper Editor, DX-oyente, Krum TX (AKA Qal R. Mann,
 Krumudgeon)
                            
 
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