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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.
< 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!)
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