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The best way to reach me any time is by email: Gary@G4iFB.com   I work in IT so I’m in front of the PC about 14 hours a day - literally.

I also use LoTW and upload my log every few days.  Do you use LoTW?  By all means send me a bureau card too: I enjoy exchanging and collecting picture postcards from radio friends around the world.  If you want my QSL card, please ask me on-air and/or just send me yours via the ZL bureau. I check and reply to all QSLs received here.  I despatch buro cards in batches of between 500 and 1,500 several times a year.  Alternatively send me your card direct with a self-addressed envelope (or at least a sticky label with your address) and US$2 or an IRC to:

 

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.

4kg of QSLs to goResponding 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.

< Here is April 2010’s 4kg batch of 1,500 cards about to go to the post office.

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 (~05:00z to bed time) on the bottom end of 20/30/40m mostly at present, and sometimes around ZL dawn too (~18:00z to 21:00z).  During the ZL day, I’m often monitoring the 10m beacons and watching DXcluster for new ones.  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!)

Hawke’s Bay
North Island
New Zealand

39o 39’ South x 176o 37½’ East

Locator RF80HL

260m ASL

IOTA OC-036

CQ zone 32

ITU zone 60

 

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