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Here is my new semi-final QSL card design. We're trying to incorporate the hollow state motif in its design.

Philip

well, I see the electro-shock therapy didn't help ... whatcha gonna do fo round two ?

John,

I think it has something to do with that red dirt they have in Ga. or it's the water.

Fred

Nah, its the residual radiation from

1. Wastewater downstream from the Savannah River Plant (makes plutonium and tritium).

2. H Bomb lost off Tybee, GA in the 50's in the ocean.

The only other thing you need on that card is a note that says "I monitor Channel 10 night and day". Of course, your card expression is your choice, but I sure wouldn't hang it on the wall if I received one.

Meet us tonight at about 7 PM on or about 14.330 AM.  I want one of those cards!

Planning on it.

Actually, I monitor 19 night and day to get the latest Smokey Reports. I also wear a tinfoil hat 24/7/365 to shield me from the alien emanations originating from Ceti Alpha V.

The only thing you mite get fron Ceti Alpha V is a bad case of Ceti Eels. Just wear ear plugs.
 ;)
Norm

...and the back of the card...

Not yet but I like the suggestion. K1NSS haven't quite finalized the front.

Looks like Philip will be first to solve the cold fusion problem.

That's a pipe dream. We already have fusion in the form of "Supers", eg. thermonuclear weapons.

Yep, lot of energy but the side effects are kinda tough to deal with.  ;)

Actually, I monitor 19 night and day to get the latest Smokey Reports. I also wear a tinfoil hat 24/7/365 to shield me from the alien emanations originating from Ceti Alpha V.  :-[MY TIN FOIL HAT MELTED :-[

Now you can include a picture of the blown capacitor.

Heard (barely) some of you on 14.330 last night around 7:45 but couldn't make myself heard. Some dang aliens had lowered the cone of silence around my QTH.

"These things just plain wanna go KAFLOOEY!" exclaimed a ham operator wearing black duct tape to conceal his identity.

"Cold Fusion never delivered the goods. OLD Fusion, on the other hand requires no more than a continuing supply of vintage E.F. Johnson Viking Valiant transmitters, each containing enough rogue energy to power an infinite number of Trailways motor coaches back and forth across the United States for "the foreseeable future."

Word is already out in the amateur radio community. Boat Anchor Wildcatters are scouting hamfests nationwide hoping to strike a "gusher" of Valiants before the general public gets in on the "Dark Beige and Black Gold Rush" and turns what used to be a pleasant dog-eat-dog fight between Deliverance extras over dirty old radios into a downright donnybrook.

The self-proclaimed King of Old Fusion is already experimenting with other Boat Anchors. "We're not releasing brands and models that show promise for fear of retribution by Big Oil, Big Gas, Big Peat, Big Wood, Big Coal and Big Nunzio, the legitmiate businessman behind planet Earth's last solvent Solar Energy company."

K1NSS is brutal.

Very nice and good vibes, hollow, of course.

"Jeff K1NSS" artwork ?

Might leave the back more like a USPS postcard format, say one half of it for the address field.

That's just something he posted on Facebook last night to honor my 100 uF cooking contest.

Now that's funny! I don't care who you are.  ;D ;D ;D

I like it all.

I have no aversions to hanging interesting QSL cards up as long as they are not indecent. I don't see the CH 10 thing, but the card is not the recipient's fault in any case!!

G'Day all. FYI, here's another recent QSL design of mine. OM Mitch wanted a western theme and helped me out with a few snaps of him posing with his horse Peppy and his trusty KX-3. I was aiming for a rough watercolor sketchbook look.  Began with scanned pencil sketches based on photos with color added and edited in Photoshop. My style runs to cartoony like Philip's mad scientist, but I like to mix it up, generally favoring retro graphic styles. Grew up on equal parts QST and Mad magazine, humor heros all over the map, key among many, "Gil" Gildersleeve and Jean Shepherd. BTW, I was honored to create a card for the current holder of Shep's call, K2ORS, also attached.

I like 'em.

The second card is perfect.  -Great theme guiding the viewer's imagination from preceding events to many possible outcomes.  - Your focused ham personified.

I just wish I had the foresight to reserve the call K2ORS when Shep passed on. I visited with him many, many times when I was a high school kid and he was broadcasting on WOR in NY.

Excelsior, fathead!

Thank you kindly Rick. Gotham Vertical nostalgia aside, Warren K2ORS was attracted to the big loading coil because he does a lot of LF work, 500khz and down, where loading coils loom large for those stalwart Neo Retro experimenters. The picture is from my second book "Sky Buddies," about growing up ham in the Soaring Sixties. Drawn from cold winter memories of adjusting the tap in my flannel pajamas.  No ground, no counterpoise, just a Gotham screwed to a 2x4 stuck in the snow.  My luck didn't begin to change until I stopped feeding the vertical and repurposed it to a mast for an inverted V.

Me too, if by "visiting" you mean listening to his radio show.  Never made it to any of his performances at the Limelight in the city, drat! I don't think any artist better expressed the amateur radio experience, which was the genesis of modern geek culture.  Never knew him, but, in the Kevin Bacon Degrees of Separation mode,  I know someone who did,  a member of the Sons of the Whiskey Rebellion, the ragtime group whose record Shep used much for music beds for his WOR bits. Another member of the group was Shep's Jersey flying instructor.

Actually, a friend (WA2USW) and I visited him in the studio in NYC frequently. He generally ignored us, but did allow a couple of young snot-nosed hams to stand in the studio as he spun golden tales.

Many years later I saw Jean in a performance at Springfield (NJ) High School and found he had aged almost as much as did I!

73
Jack
WA2OLZ

Wow Jack, Brass Fig Newton to you guys! How did that come about and how long did that go on?  What a cool story.

Indeed. I have one of those cards from K2ORS. Quite cool hanging on the wall.

Good morning, Colonel, suh! My Dad was also a member of CAF before the name became so politically correct. I also fly, but never joined the ranks.

Bob, WA2USW, had an ambition while in high school to become a broadcast engineer. I'm not sure how he did it, but somehow hooked up with the good folks over at WOR radio in New York City, got to know them, and the rest is history. Bob actually followed his ambition and became the engineer he wanted to be. My ambition at the time was less lofty. Think of teenage boys with raging hormones and you will get the idea :o

My recollection is that we started the visits to WOR in 1959 and probably continued until high school graduation in 1961 for him and 1962 for me.

It is memories of that period that have rekindled the AM bug in me.

Cool Jack, got me thinking about a proposal I'll share in a PM.

Well..by hook or crook it took some brass to sustain a hangout in Jean Shepherd's studio.  My guess he wouldn't entertain more than a glance in the glass if he didn't enjoy your company. Tip o'the phones to you guys.

Also my guess raging hormones were the undoing of many kid ham careers. Like Joe Walsh, I made the common transition from radios to guitars and there the simularity ends.  I took the opportunity to heavily gild my good old days by means of my alter-ego Dash! in Love Shack on Radio Rowhttp://www.dashtoons.com/LS%20Arch.html (http://www.dashtoons.com/LS%20Arch.html).

Re CAF (HI):  I fell into my association with www.b29radio.com (http://www.b29radio.com) by means of Rockwell Collins Museum Curator Lawrence KC0ODK, a longtime Dash!Chum. No pilot me, just a very casual vintage aircraft buff,  but my late Dad was a B17 radio op and my sister-in-law's father was a B-29 gunner, so my interest in FIFI and the CAF is personal.

Also attached find K1NSS (aka Jr Birdman Walter Mitty) at FIFI's rennovated radio position, at last summer's Reading air show.
73

Jeff K1NSS