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ZL2!FB, Castle Peak, 1262 Taihape Road, RD9 Hastings 4179, NEW ZEALAND
Please put
your callsign somewhere on
your return envelope - under
the flap/inside if you prefer
it not to be seen - so that
if it becomes separated from
the card I still know who the
envelope is for.
Responding to a direct QSL
costs me about US$2 -
that’s NZ$2.30
(US$1.51) just for the
airmail postage, plus the
cost of the card, the label
and a ~40km round trip to our
nearest Post Office. If
you don’t send enough
to cover the postage,
I’m afraid you’ll
have to wait for your QSL
bureau to deliver. If
you send more than US$2, I
will be grateful for your
kindness but return the
excess for you to donate to
the next DXpedition.
US$2 is enough, really.
Likewise one valid IRC is
enough but please don’t
send me soon-to-expire 2009
IRCs after about
October/November as I
won’t be able to use
them up in time.
I
don’t use eQSL.
Please don’t spam me
asking me to verify my
details on eQSL. eQSLs
are not valid for any of the
awards I’m chasing so I
can’t see the point,
really. LoTW is much better.
I’m usually QRV around ZL dusk (~07:00z to bed time) on the bottom end of 20/30/40m mostly at present, and sometimes around ZL dawn too (~18:00z). I’m often on the bottom end of 10/12/15m during the ZL daytime. If you see my call spotted or spotting on the DXcluster, I’m QRV but watch out for the descending hoardes of cluster crabs.
Keep an ear out for ZL2iFB or ZM4G in the next CW contest, CW DX pileup or rarely on the QRP
calling frequencies (least reliable of all but definitely the most fun!)
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