Congratulations, Patrick!!!I'm glad that it was a special station and in Alaska, too. Bravo and well done!!! I'll bet that its also a bit nice to have that monkey off your back.
My first QSL is KEX here in Portland, from Stillwater, OK in 1953............. but I took a hiatus from MW QSLing from late 1959 until 1990(!) so we'll not compare numbers.
Patrick, that is an awful lot of years and a huge amount of persistence. I think that there are three or four collections in the history of NAm MW that were above 3000, but there can't be very many. Most of those were collections started in the 20s and 30s when QSLing was much easier.... near 100% response rates, etc. Do you have any idea how many collections (and by whom) are above the 3000 mark??? I'll bet that us old guys would recognize almost every name.
Great job, Patrick! John Bryant At 07:56 PM 11/17/2008 -0800, you wrote:
Wow! Congratulations! You started QSL'ing when I was nine years old. I knew about MW DX at a fairly early age. From the San Francisco Bay area I used to sometimes listen to LA Dodgers/SF Giants baseball games way back when they were on KFI.73 ----- Original Message -----Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:31:30 -0800 From: mwdxer@xxxxxxxxx (Patrick Martin) Subject: [IRCA] QSL # 3,000-KFBX 970 To: mwoz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, wienbob@xxxxxxx, BACONTI@xxxxxxx, gaylemt@xxxxxxxxxx, irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, martinfoltz@xxxxxxx, martin.foltz@xxxxxxxxxx, am@xxxxxxxxxxx, hard-core-dx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, showe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Message-ID: <22997-49223712-3819@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Content-Type: Text/Plain; Charset=US-ASCII After rearly 44 years of QSLing (Feb 65 to now), I have reached a milestone of 3,000 MW QSLs from 95 countries. The one received in today's mail is another jewell. It made my day. 970 KFBX AK, Fairbanks, received a very nice QSL card "NewsRadio 970" in blue and "KFBX" is yellow lettering. Under that in black lettering "Fairbanks Alaska USA" and " 970 kHz AM 10,000 watts." Also enclosed was a nice letter on KFBX letterheard. in 358d V/S: Scott Diseth, C.E.. Mentioning, they rarely get reports from the Lower 48. Address: KFBX, Clear Channel Radio, 546 9th Avenue, Fairbanks AK 99701. Alaska QSL #60, MW QSL 3,000. (PM-OR) I had given up on this one, as the report was tentative and the CD left a lot to be desired quality-wise. No ID, but I did have spot for a Car Dealer with the phone prefix, so I knew it was KFBX. I am sure happy with this one. 73, Patrick Patrick Martin KGED QSL Manager_______________________________________________ IRCA mailing list IRCA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/ircaOpinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officersFor more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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