WANT? ASK! GET! GOOD!

Here, in no particular order, are a few recent e-mail requests for an Official This Week in Amateur Radio QSL Card. The more traditional pathway of writing a reception report and mailing it to: This Week in Amateur Radio Post Office Box 30, Sand Lake, New York 12153 has given way in recent years to an e-mail request sent to n2fnh@capital.net. So, whether you receive the program over your local VHF or UHF repeater, copy the show over WBCQ or download the latest weekly Internet Podcast, you can get your own TWIAR QSL Card by taking pen to paper, or fingers to keyboard. either way works!

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requesting a podcard
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TWIAR, Thank you for your wonderful program. It is by far my favorite show on Shortwave. I have been listening regularly for several years on WBCQ on 7.415. This week's program was heard ending at 2200 with a very nice signal 59+. I would enjoy receiving a QSL card. Michael Maher (NJ2X) 121 Taylor Ave. Hillsborough, NJ 08844 Michael NJ2X
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Been listening to the podcast. AJ4FJ -Greg
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Hi,
I heard the Random Access Thought on TWIAR podcast and it was great!
Please send a PodCard.
73, Eric Taylor KB1PJN

All The E That's Fit To P!

Here, in no particular order, are a few recent e-mail requests for an Official This Week in Amateur Radio QSL Card. The more traditional pathway of writing a reception report and mailing it to: This Week in Amateur Radio Post Office Box 30, Sand Lake, New York 12153 has given way in recent years to an e-mail request sent to n2fnh@capital.net. So, whether you receive the program over your local VHF or UHF repeater, copy the show over WBCQ or download the latest weekly Internet Podcast, you can get your own TWIAR QSL Card by taking pen to paper, or fingers to keyboard. either way works!

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Please send me a TWIAR podcard at your earliest convenience.
Thank you!
73
de russ/n3yi
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Just heard TWIAR via podcast. If I think of it and conDX allow, I'll listen Saturday afternoon on WBCQ, but that doesn't always happen, so this allows me to listen whenever, and to take it with me around Boston.73'sDan MalloyEverett, MA 02149
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I lesion via a pod cast and love the program. TWIAR is saved into my favorites on my laptop, keep up the great work!Jacob Fields (kb0zia)Amateur Radio
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Request for TWIAR podcard. 73 MM6ADR

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Listening to that last podcast, and i would love a copy of the new card.PS tell Leo Laporte keep up the good work.Tom Tishken Ham Radio: KD4WOV GMRS: WPON678 US Army Mars Member Currently Hold a Commercial FCC License (General Radiotelephone Operator License GROL)(licensed FCC Radio Tech) 10 10 international: Member #74478 Central states VHF Society: Life Member Founder of the Florida 10 meter Group Founder of the Florida Amateur Radio Technical Society Strait Key Century Club #3684 ARRL Certified Volunteer Examiner W5YI Certified Volunteer Examiner Founder of the Cypress Chapter, and was removed member of the chapter.

The Invasion Of The PODCARD Snatchers!

Here, in no particular order, are a few recent e-mail requests for an Official This Week in Amateur Radio QSL Card. The more traditional pathway of writing a reception report and mailing it to: This Week in Amateur Radio Post Office Box 30, Sand Lake, New York 12153 has given way in recent years to an e-mail request sent to n2fnh@capital.net. So, whether you receive the program over your local VHF or UHF repeater, copy the show over WBCQ or download the latest weekly Internet Podcast, you can get your own TWIAR QSL Card by taking pen to paper, or fingers to keyboard. either way works!

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Hi Bill,
So you have the new Podcard? Sign me up.
I still continue to listen to TWIAR and look forward to your segments.
I also follow you on Twitter. (I'm ArcaneRadio)
Please send the card to
Jim Deneen kd8lwp
Pinckney, MI
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Hi,
Just heard about the new podcard in podcast edition 863, sounds good, could you email me one please?
Thanks
Tony
Twitter: swlistener
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Bill,
I really, really, did visit your blog. Awesome job.
Secret promo code: RATRAT
Would love to have an Official This Week in Amateur
Radio QSL card.
I am:
Charles Schaaf (wb8sho)
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Please send the new PODCard to
Bill Alpert, KG6NRV
Alta Loma, CA USA
Thanks!
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These are the latest This Week In Amateur Radio listeners to receive our brand new TWIAR PODCARD (with the secret mystery message). For more details, check out the following addresses:
http://twaud.io/qFQ
http://twaud.io/N2FNH
My good buddy Boleslav Krasnov, senior technician at Canarsie Wireless in Brooklyn, explains it all!

MAIL'S IN!

Here, in no particular order, are a few recent e-mail requests for an Official This Week in Amateur Radio QSL Card. The more traditional pathway of writing a reception report and mailing it to: This Week in Amateur Radio Post Office Box 30, Sand Lake, New York 12153 has given way in recent years to an e-mail request sent to n2fnh@capital.net. So, whether you receive the program over your local VHF or UHF repeater, copy the show over WBCQ or download the latest weekly Internet Podcast, you can get your own TWIAR QSL Card by taking pen to paper, or fingers to keyboard. either way works!

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Subject: Re: @GOWRONE A QSL FOR YOU! BEST 73 DE N2FNH
wow that was cool! hahah funny too! you should do one with all the voices you have lol. i know some of the names of them, but who all do you have running the machine? lol.
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Hi Bill,
Jim Fidler here, VO1RV.
I'm a recording artist, white caner and have been doing a show called Republic Of Avalon Radio for 5 years now. Oh, did I forget to mention a huge fan of the Random Access Thought? I've been radio since birth; starting with a transistor radio, tuning around the AM band at nights, SW listener, broadcaster and advanced amateur operator since 1984. Due to RFI problems, I've been off the air for longer than I'd like to say. Recently, I've ordered the IC706 MKIIG. Those pesky nabours will have to follow me around in the mobile now if they want to complain. I'm beyond happy about finally being able to get back on HF, as you could well imagine.Well, the long and the short of it is, in celebration of my revived status as a ham, a radio ham that is, I've been the other kind all the way through, I'm producing a special edition of our show all about radio. As part of this show, I'd be tickled if I had a piece from you for inclusion. It need not be anything too complicated; even a brief bit just IDing Republic Of Avalon Radio would be fantastic. I'd love to have an ID from you anyway and link to you and TWIAR through our website at: www.republicofavalonradio.com So, what do you think? Can ya help a guy out??? Well, hopefully, thanks in advance. Cheers and a big 73 from myself and 88 from my XYL Lillian, who's call just happens to be VO1XYL.
Best, Jim
http://www.jimfidler.com/
http://www.republicofavalonradio.com/

Thanks a million Bill!
I very much look forward to it. Well, it's off to play some more with my new IC MKIIG. What a nice little radio. Can't wait to get it into the mobile and tak'er on the road.
Cheers and 73,
Jim - VO1RV
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lost my QSL card for TWIAR during my move. Please send me a new one! I still listen to you via the podcast. No one in my area seems to be broadcasting the show.
Jim Deneen - KD8LWP
I'm ArcaneRadio on twitter.
Thanks

We Got Mail! Mail Is Good! We Like Our Mail!

Here, in no particular order, are a few recent e-mail requests for an Official This Week in Amateur Radio QSL Card. The more traditional pathway of writing a reception report and mailing it to: This Week in Amateur Radio Post Office Box 30, Sand Lake, New York 12153 has given way in recent years to an e-mail request sent to n2fnh@capital.net. So, whether you receive the program over your local VHF or UHF repeater, copy the show over WBCQ or download the latest weekly Internet Podcast, you can get your own TWIAR QSL Card by taking pen to paper, or fingers to keyboard. either way works!

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Hi! Thanks for your great blog entry regarding packet radio! Your mention of upstate NY prompted me to send this email. I will have been in the hobby for 2 years in Sept, and am involved with the Saratoga and Warren County groups. Saratoga does have a node that I really can't hit with my antenna (tuned too high), but I hope to eventually resolve that. I am also in a position to suggest that a digipeter be placed on Gore Mt, along with the APRS setup there. Last month, while in Saratoga after our NYSDOH Hospital drill, I messed around on the K2DLL machine and got into TARA's packet BBS. It was quite interesting :) I was heavily involved in Fidonet BBS's back in the late 80's and early 90's, so I have something of a clue. I'd really like to build a packet BBS here and tie into the Flexnet system, and have dreams of building some internet gateway services into it. I've emailed Rusty KE2PW, and he has offered a TNC, that may need some work, toward the project. I'd love a 9600 baud system, but the other links are just 2400, so I'll go slow at first. It's interesting to note that my internet access is also wireless, via satellite, thru wildblue.net, since cable is 5 poles down the road and I'm about 5 miles too far from the nearest CO for DSL. It's not that I'm really wanting to beat a dead horse, but I see the value in experimenting with an aspect of the hobby so close to my interest in computers, as well as it's value in emergency communications. I'm also interested in HSDD "hinternet" stuff, but I'm in "the boonies" so I hay have to wait for interest in that to restart. Anyhow, thanks again for the history lesson to this newbie. :) I can hit the Schenectady .06 machine fairly well from here, if you want to try a 2m QSO, and also have 10-80 HF available. 73 de Jeff KC2SDS Jeff Archambeault
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Hi!
I'm Etienne Ali, VA2SSS, listening through mp3 file downloads. I wish to receive the twiar qsl card. My address is: Etienne Ali Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
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Hey........
Love listening to ya'll. I listen at work while designing Electrical Circuits for commercial laundry equipment.
Keith w5kb
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this is kc0qjj. i've been a ham since 2003. not sure how qsl's work, just know the theory behind them. no idea what i need to put here? i live in springfield, mo. i listen via the podcasts (bcq can be hard to get and no repeaters here carry any of these cool ham radio shows) and i synch them to my new iphone!!!!!!!! beats having to be tied to the computer. the phone uses the built in screen reader so blind and visually impaired and blind people like me can use the phone. everything i encounter when i touch the screen will speak to me. it's wonderful! it's the same screen reader in my imac. i just followed the twitter account. i'm gowrone. if you guys tweet, feel free to follow me!!!!! i like your shows that you guys make! i also subscribe to the ar newsline, arrl, and rain podcasts. am i missing any? grin. oh yeah world of radio too....... lol am i still missing any? :). 73.
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Greetings! I been downloading TWIAR onto my iPod and listening to it while at work. Great way to keep up on things.

Billy (N4WJT)
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Mr Bill Baran N2FNH.
Greetings.
My name is Greg McCulkin, VK1TEQ, and I'm from Canberra, Australia. Finally I took a proper look at your blog. Saw the photo of You and Bill Continelly W2XOY Now I know what you look like. Always waited anxiously for your segments in TWIARI. Your segments have a thought provoking moral, "The Process Is More Important Than The Result". True. It seems indeed that the human race seems to prefer "presentation" than "functionality". I work in retail, my chosen career was supposed to Electrical Engineering. A long time age. P.S. Iv'e been here for 18 months, I'm a Sydney man born and bred, will "go home" one day. Always look forward to Bill Continelli's, W2XOY, segments as well. Would you please be kind enough to pass onto Bill too, thankyou. All the best. Gre.J.McCulkin VK1TEQ, (formally VK2TEQ

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We also received written letters from the following folks:
Hank Vandenbrand, of Merlin, Ontario Canada and Gori Roberto, of Livorno, Italia! Many thanks to everyone who contacted This Week in Amateur Radio: QSL cards are on the way!
Bill N2FNH

ECHELON Wouldn't Be Interested...But You? Maybe!

Here, in no particular order, are a few recent e-mail requests for an Official This Week in Amateur Radio QSL Card. The more traditional pathway of writing a reception report and mailing it to: This Week in Amateur Radio Post Office Box 30, Sand Lake, New York 12153 has given way in recent years to an e-mail request sent to n2fnh@capital.net. So, whether you receive the program over your local VHF or UHF repeater, copy the show over WBCQ or download the latest weekly Internet Podcast, you can get your own TWIAR QSL Card by taking pen to paper, or fingers to keyboard. either way works!

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Hey Bill, I must say I have enjoyed your blogs and musings on TWIAR for some time. Just thought I'd drop you a quick line to say "hello"! As a wise man once said: "The static has ears"! On that 158.400 thing. It turns out there are a couple of blogs on the popular wireless on the topic. You kinda have to wind your way around that site to find them. I have my theories about how this might be happening. I will not say yet though. I will say that one of those blogs had someone track one of their sites to near Brunswick NY. I will also say that if you listen in the early morning to 158.400, you will hear some somewhat "regular" QSO's from guys who I think are the real "players" on this - one of whom's voice sounds very familiar??** Coincidence?? Apparently this has been an ongoing thing for the past 4 years or so and involves a network of repeaters which spans Northern Jersey to Northern NY. Hmmmm........ If you can stand it, listen to 158.4000 in the backround for a couple of days.
73's - Joe
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** JOE MADE A REFERENCE TO A REGIONAL SYSTEM IN THIS AREA WHICH I WITHHELD UNTIL MORE INFORMATION COMES FORTH. DON'T WORRY BE HAPPY!
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Hi Bill;
My name is also Bill. I visited your Random Access Thought blogspot. I enjoyed reading it. I also listen to you on radio station WBCQ, 7.415 Mc Shortwave, when I can hear the station. I used to listen to you on a local amateur radio repeater on 145.19 Mc, but you are not there anymore. I would like a QSL card. I just had lunch, a bowl of Cream of Mushroom soup. I made it with milk instead of water. My computer, with which I visited your blogspot, is a Dell INSPIRON E1505 laptop. I have many shortwave radios, but I use a Kaito 1103 to tune in WBCQ.
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I enjoyed your blogspot very much. I made it a Favorite on my computer, and will visit it again. A friend of mine, also named Bill, wants me to start a blog. After visiting this site, I may.
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I like the name Bill, don't you? Although sometimes I want to be called "Louie". Some people call me "CLO", I don't know why. Please send me a QSL card. The secret code is RATRAT.
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My address is
Bill Continelli
Rensselaer, NY

THERE'S A LETTER IN YOUR MAILBOX!!!!!

Here, in no particular order, are a few recent e-mail requests for an Official This Week in Amateur Radio QSL Card. The more traditional pathway of writing a reception report and mailing it to: This Week in Amateur Radio Post Office Box 30, Sand Lake, New York 12153 has given way in recent years to an e-mail request sent to n2fnh@capital.net. So, whether you receive the program over your local VHF or UHF repeater, copy the show over WBCQ or download the latest weekly Internet Podcast, you can get your own TWIAR QSL Card by taking pen to paper, or fingers to keyboard. either way works!

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(Editor's Note: With reference to The Random Access Thought: The Story of Reginald)
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Great job be it true or fiction just a great story. Since you are in Buffalo I would have liked to heard a short WKBW clip worked into to show.
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Jerry Fisher
VE4SAT
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Hi, I didn't write for a QSL..But would like one....My comment was about the Security Gard/CB story. I don't know if this was true or fiction but a great piece. If it was in Buffalo I thought you could have worked a WKBW clip into the background... KW is Buffalo..The last time I was there was in 1999. I turned on the radio expecting KB to be rockin away instead a baseball game-times change. I lived in the Springfield,Mass area in the early 60's and remember WKBW and WTRY in their prime as rockers.
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Jerry Fisher
VE4SAT
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Hi, I am sure that a good segment of your audience are Viet Nam Era Vets...Stratovision was used during the early phases of the War. A mention of this would have been great.
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Jerry Fisher
VE4SAT
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Hi Jerry, Thanks for writing! During the course of research on Stratovision, there was no direct reference to Viet Nam era deployment but I have also heard that such techniques have been used by the USA in Afghanistan in recent times. The orginal concept for Stratovision took place in 1940's and 50's as a non-military educational apllication. But perhaps we have some core material for a future Random Access Thought. I've been on hiatus for a few months and plan to start cutting new programs soon, so this may be good follow-up. > Anyway, thanks for writing. I believe you wrote for a QSL Card. I was wondering if you received it. More later!
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Bill/N2FNH
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found your programs on backmasking and oija entertaining (though the latter was creepy). My friend in Pennsylvania recorded the programs and sent them on a CD to me (in Kansas city, mo) and I found them cool. My friend has lots of radio equipment and an huge antenna he strings through a fence, so he can record stuff from WOKIE and WBCQ, which is probably where he got your program from. I don't have much use for a QSL card (except as a coaster), but anything else would be cool. I guess my friend could use such a card, but I'm not sure. Anyways, please make more shows about weird or silly stuff and less rants about radios.
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"Wagner, Christopher"

What Say, Old Man? QSL?

Here, in no particular order, are a few recent e-mail requests for an Official This Week in Amateur Radio QSL Card. The more traditional pathway of writing a reception report and mailing it to: This Week in Amateur Radio Post Office Box 30, Sand Lake, New York 12153 has given way in recent years to an e-mail request sent to n2fnh@capital.net. So, whether you receive the program over your local VHF or UHF repeater, copy the show over WBCQ or download the latest weekly Internet Podcast, you can get your own TWIAR QSL Card by taking pen to paper, or fingers to keyboard. either way works!

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Bill,

I download TWIAR every Sunday night or Monday morning and listen to it and Soldersmoke on my way to work. Both together last about three mornings and make my driving much more enjoyable. I have been licensed since 1960 with my original call K8WPE. No need to change as it rings well with CW. Finally made extra class about 1980. Mostly on HF with QRP with an assortment of kit built radios from Elecraft, Heath, Wilderness Radio, and the new PFR 3. Antennas are a dipole, long wire, G5RV, a Buddipole and a Black Widow fishing pole vertical. Do more listening than transmitting.

Thanks for all you do for the amateur community. Your program is like another ham radio magazine every week and I don't have to stop what I am doing to read it.

72,

Dave K8WPE
David J. Wilcox
3196 Zimmerman Road
Traverse City, MI 49684

QSL??? Yeah! We Got That!!!

Here, in no particular order, are a few recent e-mail requests for an Official This Week in Amateur Radio QSL Card. The more traditional pathway of writing a reception report and mailing it to: This Week in Amateur Radio Post Office Box 30, Sand Lake, New York 12153 has given way in recent years to an e-mail request sent to n2fnh@capital.net. So, whether you receive the program over your local VHF or UHF repeater, copy the show over WBCQ or download the latest weekly Internet Podcast, you can get your own TWIAR QSL Card by taking pen to paper, or fingers to keyboard. either way works!

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Just dropping you guys a line to get the QSL card. I'm a new ham, got my ticket in April, just upgraded to general 2 weeks ago, and a friend told me about the show on 7.415 Mhz, and with my shiny new rig, and horrible dipole that looks like something the cat rejected as being too pitiful to even bother with, and probably right from being half baked by incidental RF experiments in the front room. So I first picked you up on 7.415, then to the website, and downloaded a few past issues, love the amateur archives and the ham humor parts of it, my father use to work with Bill Hamilton the guy who recorded the repeaterisms for the 7.76 repeater here in Columbus, and quite a few horror stories of how bill used to torment his bosses, apparently quite a character. Any ways I heard the email addy for the QSL card, (haven't gotten one yet) so thought i would throw you an email, and snail mail for the shiny QSL card.
Charles Johnston III (W8KWA)
3444 Independence Street
Grove City Ohio 43123

You've Got Mail! Or Some Such Similar Registered Trademark...

Here, in no particular order, are a few recent e-mail requests for an Official This Week in Amateur Radio QSL Card. The more traditional pathway of writing a reception report and mailing it to: This Week in Amateur Radio Post Office Box 30, Sand Lake, New York 12153 has given way in recent years to an e-mail request sent to n2fnh@capital.net. So, whether you receive the program over your local VHF or UHF repeater, copy the show over WBCQ or download the latest weekly Internet Podcast, you can get your own TWIAR QSL Card by taking pen to paper, or fingers to keyboard. either way works!

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Thanks for the write up on this subject. My brother is trying to get me into this stuff. I hope it does not die to soon. Keep up the good work
John Flint KC9MVQ
9216N 100E
Lucerne, IN 46950
secret promo code: RATRAT
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Hi,
I would love to get a QSL card for the show. I heard your station (listening now) on 7.415MHz @ 22:00 UTC 11/30/08…. You’re S9 + 10 into North Florida. I’m running a Yaesu FT-840, along with a vertical 180 foot loop.
73!
John Lynes
K4NIN

Lots and Lots of Letters!

Here, in no particular order, are a few recent e-mail requests for an Official This Week in Amateur Radio QSL Card. The more traditional pathway of writing a reception report and mailing it to: This Week in Amateur Radio Post Office Box 30, Sand Lake, New York 12153 has given way in recent years to an e-mail request sent to n2fnh@capital.net. So, whether you receive the program over your local VHF or UHF repeater, copy the show over WBCQ or download the latest weekly Internet Podcast, you can get your own TWIAR QSL Card by taking pen to paper, or fingers to keyboard. either way works!

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Just wanted to say that I enjoy listening to TWIAR. I use an old Hallicrafters S-38 with 40 feet of wire to pick up WBCQ. My QTH is in Ohio and the radio show comes in great! I have turned 3 other hams in my area on to TWIAR and we enjoy listening to the show and making comments on the 2 meter band while listening to the broadcast.

Thanks again and keep up the great work.

73
KC8MXW

Aaron Beatty
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QRA IO83LW
63 Manor Road
Fleetwood
UK
John Earnshaw
M0JFE
Ride The Waves And Make New Friends
Packet M0JFE@GB7FCR.#16.GBR.EU
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just finished listening to another episode of TWIAR… I enjoy the Random Access the best. You had solicited email to obtain a QSL Card if I sent information about me. I'm Kevin Prodromides (KE7OSU) I'm in Tucson Arizona
9331 N Denise Ann Pl
Tucson, AZ 85742
I receive TWIAR pod cast from http://www.twiar.org/international.html
73's, Kevin (KE7OSU)
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Sent from my BlackBerry Smartphone provided by Alltel
(wrote back asking for address)
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Also, This Week in Amateur Radio received standard mail for the following listeners!

Peter Bentley East Aurora, New York
Robert Garland NX3S Perkasie, Pennsylvania
George Dupee K1AAG Palm Beach Gardens, Florida

Everyone mentioned here in this posting will receive an Official This Week in Amateur Radio
QSL Card!

KE7OSU M0JFE

QRZ? FB! QSL! 73!

Here, in no particular order, are a few recent e-mail requests for an Official This Week in Amateur Radio QSL Card. The more traditional pathway of writing a reception report and mailing it to: This Week in Amateur Radio Post Office Box 30, Sand Lake, New York 12153 has given way in recent years to an e-mail request sent to n2fnh@capital.net. So, whether you receive the program over your local VHF or UHF repeater, copy the show over WBCQ or download the latest weekly Internet Podcast, you can get your own TWIAR QSL Card by taking pen to paper, or fingers to keyboard. either way works!

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Just wanted to say that I enjoy listening to TWIAR. I use an old Hallicrafters S-38 with 40 feet of wire to pick up WBCQ. My QTH is in Ohio and the radio show comes in great! I have turned 3 other hams in my area on to TWIAR and we enjoy listening to the show and making comments on the 2 meter band while listening to the broadcast. Thanks again and keep up the great work.
73
KC8MXW
Aaron Beatty
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QRA IO83LW
63 Manor Road
Fleetwood
UK
John Earnshaw
M0JFE
Ride The Waves And Make New Friends
Packet M0JFE@GB7FCR.#16.GBR.EU

Get the Door! It's the Mail!

Here, in no particular order, are a few recent e-mail requests for an Official This Week in Amateur Radio QSL Card. The more traditional pathway of writing a reception report and mailing it to: This Week in Amateur Radio Post Office Box 30, Sand Lake, New York 12153 has given way in recent years to an e-mail request sent to n2fnh@capital.net. So, whether you receive the program over your local VHF or UHF repeater, copy the show over WBCQ or download the latest weekly Internet Podcast, you can get your own TWIAR QSL Card by taking pen to paper, or fingers to keyboard. either way works!

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Hi Bill Just stumbled across your Telnet News article, where you traversed some of the Dutch CB Packet network, including my own. Was quite interesting how you have a poke around there, pity we didn't get to chat at the time :) Regards Greg aka PE2GRT
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Hi,
I'd like you to know that I'm enjoying listening to TWIAR every week since about 2 months. I download the podcast usually on Sunday and listen to it over breakfast. I am a ham since 1972, my callsign is PA0RDA There are no repeaters broadcasting the show so download is the only option for me. Tanks for the entertainment.
Adrian
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Can you please send me one of the TWIAR QSL cards?
Greg Stoddard
4750 E. Union Hills Dr. #2012
Phoenix AZ 85050
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Hello OM,
I finally decided to send a reception report as you so earnestly request each week. I receive the TWIAR podcast each week and have been listening faithfully for two years or more. I really enjoy your editorial pieces and the sound effects with which you accentuate really makes for a FB production. Speaking of sound effects, might I suggest that your listeners likely would want to hear more of how you became involved with audio work and the sources of the sounds. Every time I hear your stuff, I wonder how the creativity and humor came about.
73 & best wishes,
Norm
WB5MJM
Fort Collins, Colorado

The Post Man Always Rings Twice!

Here, in no particular order, are a few recent e-mail requests for an Official This Week in Amateur Radio QSL Card. The more traditional pathway of writing a reception report and mailing it to: This Week in Amateur Radio Post Office Box 30, Sand Lake, New York 12153 has given way in recent years to an e-mail request sent to n2fnh@capital.net. So, whether you receive the program over your local VHF or UHF repeater, copy the show over WBCQ or download the latest weekly Internet Podcast, you can get your own TWIAR QSL Card by taking pen to paper, or fingers to keyboard. either way works!

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Bill,
Please send me a TWIAR QSL card. I listen to TWIAR via the iTunes podcast and enjoy it immensely.
Thanks in advance and keep up the good work.
David Walden Sr., AK4DW
4929 Wise Springs Road
Knoxville, TN 37918
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Thanks for the write up on this subject. My brother is trying to get me into this stuff. I hope it does not die to soon.
Keep up the good work
John Flint KC9MVQ
9216N 100E
Lucerne, IN 46950

secret promo code: RATRAT

Letters! We Get Letters!

Here, in no particular order, are a few recent e-mail requests for an Official This Week in Amateur Radio QSL Card. The more traditional pathway of writing a reception report and mailing it to: This Week in Amateur Radio Post Office Box 30, Sand Lake, New York 12153 has given way in recent years to an e-mail request sent to n2fnh@capital.net. So, whether you receive the program over your local VHF or UHF repeater, copy the show over WBCQ or download the latest weekly Internet Podcast, you can get your own TWIAR QSL Card by taking pen to paper, or fingers to keyboard. either way works!

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Hello,

I heard that this is the email to request the TWIAR QSL Cards from for
the radio broadcast. If this is incorrect, please disreguard.

My information is:

Robert Keller KC8FNF
9909 Trail Bottom Rd. NW
Dundee Ohio 44624
(330)852-0174

I listen to the podcast via download from iTunes, most recently issue #808.

If you need any further information, please ask.

Thank You and 73,
Robert KC8FNF
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Greetings. I heard your latest brodcast om wbcq and enjoyed the program. I would like a qsl please. KB8OCG. 3760 Myrtle Rd. Lakeport MI 48059. Tnx73
Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T
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Bill, I read your random access thought on the 158.400 stuff. There is another website you may want to check out. And yes, it's still out there. 73's Joe - KB2SRD

http://www.popularwireless.com/forum/ubbthreads.phpubb=showflat&Number=71536&page=1&fpart=1

We Just Got a Letter! We Just Got a Letter! And So Forth!

Here, in no particular order, are a few recent e-mail requests for an Official This Week in Amateur Radio QSL Card. The more traditional pathway of writing a reception report and mailing it to: This Week in Amateur Radio Post Office Box 30, Sand Lake, New York 12153 has given way in recent years to an e-mail request sent to n2fnh@capital.net. So, whether you receive the program over your local VHF or UHF repeater, copy the show over WBCQ or download the latest weekly Internet Podcast, you can get your own TWIAR QSL Card by taking pen to paper, or fingers to keyboard. either way works!

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OK I admit it. Between QSOs I visited your blog.
73, Harry
W9HGO -SKCC #4647

I have been an active SWL'er since 1960. Passed my General written 10/20/04 and passed my code exam and extra written on 1/23/05. No transmitter at the moment but have a JRC525 on the receive side. My previous radios were a Yaesu FRG 7000 and a Hallicrafters SX-110. I am usually on 10 15 40 or 80 listening for CW to copy or our local repeater here in Chicago, IL (147.15). I like the idea of QRP and looking for an old inexpensive boat anchor to go along with the JRC. Also interested in glow bugs and want to build up an old 1 tube transmitter at some point in the future. At the moment, July 2008, looking for my first HF rig. Finally got my first HF rig a beautiful Icom 765. On August 28th I made my first QSO. I am doing mostly CW and waiting for my digital interface so I can do some psk31 and RTTY. You will find me mainly on 40M. But check out the SKCC sked page http://www.obriensweb.com/sked/ and come and find me. I can do about 5-7 WPM so be patient.

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Hello George,While strolling through the ham radio sites I recently found TWIAR. IT'S FUN!Some of your most important topics are hardly a topic on this side ofthe pond. Distances are much shorter here - you can easily go from oneend of Germany to the other within a single day and there are some82.000.000 people living in this crammed space.Every 60 miles or so you have a town of at least 100.000, quite a few ofthem 1.000 years old and some even 2.000 years. So we had enough time tobuild an infrastructure to last. The last desaster where amateur radioplayed an important role in was the Hamburg flooding in 1962. Besides:As far as I can judge many things are much more buerocratic over here.How does it come that TWIAR has not been mentioned at Wikipedia? Thatis, until today - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Week_In_Amateur_Radio_International.

Let's hope that none of the moderators will delete it. Perhaps you can find a ham or two to polish the article. But you know the Wikipediapolicy: Don't do it yourself...vy 73,AlexanderDL4NO

TIME! That's the Subject...and so forth!

Time is the subject of this week's installment of the Random Access Thought. MNOAOS Zach's pal Bix Nix visits with Marilyn Krasnov. Bix wants to know what what it means to be obsessive. Ms. Krasnov responds by playing a tape I recorded several years back at a late summertime Troy Amateur Radio Association picnic at the nearby Riverspark Pavillion. During that event, I whipped out my C49DRSACTR and interviewed Jeff WA2AIB who launched into an intense diatribe on his his self-admitted compulsive issues concerning time.

Bix gets a lot of airtime this week, appearing in both our TWIAR/TWIARi blog promos and also our latest QSL Card Offer promo. Here is Bix's script where he stops by Canarsie Wireless to show Mother Radio his shiny QSL card collection.

(FX1 - canarsie wireless background, rainy afternoon.)
(FX2 - big warehouse doorbell.)

MR: WHO IS IT?

BX: IT'S ME, BIX.

(muffled.)

MR: COME ON IN.
(FX4 - big warehouse door open and close.)

MR: SO, WHAT BRINGS YOU TO CANARSIE WIRELESS ON THIS DOOM AND GLOOM SUNDAY AFTERNOON?

BX: HI MOTHER RADIO, I THOUGHT I'D STOP BY AND SHOW YOU MY AMAZING COLLECTION OF QSL CARDS.

MR: SAY, DO YOU HAVE ONE OF THOSE OFFICIAL THIS WEEK IN AMATEUR RADIO QSL CARDS WITH THE ASTEROIDS?

BX: WHY YES, I DO. HERE, NOTICE THE HIGH GLOSS FINISH TO THE CARD. SEE HOW
CLEAR THE RENDERING OF THE ASTEROIDS HAS BEEN DESIGNED AND DEPICTED.
(FX5 - qsl card flexing.)

MR: THAT'S AMAZING.

BX: AND ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS E-MAIL BILL. N2FNH AT CAPITAL.NET TO RECEIVE ONE OF THESE QUALITY QSL CARDS.

MX: WHAT WAS THAT ADDRESS AGAIN?

BX: THAT'S N2FNH AT CAPITAL DOT NET, N2FNH AT CAPITAL DOT NET.

MR: THAT'S GREAT! NOW, THAT YOU'RE HERE...
(FX6 - rumble.)

I'VE GOT THE LATEST MONITORING TIMES...
(FX7 - madcap1.)

OK HANG ON! GO OUTSIDE IF YOU'RE GOING TO FREAK OUT.

(FX8 - madcap2.)

MR: WHAT IS IT WITH YOU GUYS. I MENTION RADIO MAGAZINES AND BAGELS AND YOU ALL FLIP OUT. YOU'D THINK IT WAS PLAYBOY.

BX: WHAT'S PLAYBOY?
(FX9 - bounce out.)
(FX0 - babba booey.)

More "Got One for Me?" QSL Card Requests!

Here, in no particular order, are a few recent e-mail requests for an Official This Week in Amateur Radio QSL Card. The more traditional pathway of writing a reception report and mailing it to: This Week in Amateur Radio Post Office Box 30, Sand Lake, New York 12153 has given way in recent years to an e-mail request sent to n2fnh@capital.net. So, whether you receive the program over your local VHF or UHF repeater, copy the show over WBCQ or download the latest weekly Internet Podcast, you can get your own TWIAR QSL Card by taking pen to paper, or fingers to keyboard. either way works!

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Just wanted to drop a line and say that I enjoy the podcast greatly. I dl it from iTunes weekly.
Andrew Holmes
KE5SMH
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I listen to This Week In Amateur Radio on my MP3 player. Love the show. Thanks Dennis KR8U

E-Mail! We Get E-Mail! We want to hear from you!

Here, in no particular order, are a few recent e-mail requests for an Official This Week in Amateur Radio QSL Card. The more traditional pathway of writing a reception report and mailing it to: This Week in Amateur Radio Post Office Box 30, Sand Lake, New York 12153 has given way in recent years to an e-mail request sent to n2fnh@capital.net. So, whether you receive the program over your local VHF or UHF repeater, copy the show over WBCQ or download the latest weekly Internet Podcast, you can get your own TWIAR QSL Card by taking pen to paper, or fingers to keyboard. either way works!

Hello,
I wanted to write & let you know that I've listened to each and every installment of TWiAR since first discovering the podcast back in late 2005. Thanks to iTunes, it's a snap to download the program & stuff it into my iPod (along with a multitude of other shows relating to ham radio, shortwave radio, pirate radio & just broadcasting in general). I take a three mile walk every day during my lunch hour & TWiAR goes with me one day per week. I really enjoy all of the regular features (particularly the Random Access Thought, The Ancient Amateur Archives, et al) & credit your podcast as being my the inspiration for purchasing my first MP3 player waaaay back when. Keep up the great service; it is appreciated!
Brian / KA6WSR
Riverside, CA USA
Oh yeah... I'd really like to receive one of those This Week in Amateur Radio QSL cards you mentioned in the last show if you'd be so kind. Thanks in advance!

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My name is Simon, N7VTD, and I am listening to the show via podcast while at work in Portland, OR. Excellent show and very useful. I hope you keep it going for many years to come.
73
Simon
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Just wanted to drop you a line. I found the podcast of your show and really enjoyed it. I've never heard it on any of the local repeaters around my area. The show is informative & entertaining which I like.
Best regards,
Scott
KC9JRF
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Hello,
I listen to your POD CAST every week on the way to work. I drive about 42miles each way and love listening to the show because it keeps me interested and makes me enjoy the long drive. Without you I would prob be seeking new work closer to home! Love all the sound effects and of course love Random Access Thought of course the tick tock routine and most of all Technology Report with Leo! Please send me a QSL card so that I can hang it right on the wall.
Jeffrey Dubin - N9MXT
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Greetings!
I was listening to This Week In Amateur Radio #799 and heard a bit about getting a QSL card. So I would like to get my first one. ;) My name is Brendan Leber and my callsign is KD7LAH. I've been licensed since 2000 but upgraded to General earlier this year and am really getting into the hobby now. I live in Seattle and my address (if the FCC hasn't updated the database since my move) is:
Brendan Leber
Seattle, WA
I listen to the podcast while at work during the day. I subscribed in iTunes using the podcast link on the TWIAR website.
73 de Brendan
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Greetings from Louisville KY.
I am Larin, N9CTR and listen to TWIAR on my IPOD, getting the podcast though ITUNES. I really enjoy the show.
Thanks
Larin Vonnahme
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We faithfully listen to the Full Version of TWIAR weekly using an MP3 download from your website played through Winamp into desktop speakers connected to our personal home computer using Windows XP operating system.
VE7BGJ Walter Hendrickson
VA7CHR Cheryl McDuff
Burnaby, B.C. CANADA
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Hi there, been listening to TWIAR for a couple years now...love it...and enjoy my listening on my HP Pocket PC while walking my dog Keddy. Keep up the great work.
73
Joe
VO1BQ
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Hello Bill,
I listen to TWIAR International each week via podcast on my Nokia N82 http://www.nseries.com/products/n82/ mobile phone, I download podcasts directly onto the device via my WiFi Internet connection. I especially enjoy your Ancient Amateur Archives, my favourite was "The Story of Reginald". I have been a Security Officer and Amateur Radio Operator most of my adult life and I have seen a few Reginald's during this time and your story really brought back memories. I live in Healesville, a town about 60km North East of Melbourne, Victoria Australia. I am a member of the local club, Yarra Valley Amateur Radio Group http://www.yarravalley.ar.org.au/ and we have a 2M Repeater VK3RYV on 146.725 MHz. Keep up the good work with the broadcast. The views I present are that of my own and NOT of any organisation I may belong to.
73 de Simon, VK3XEM.
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N9HDO listening on an Ipod in Indianapolis, IN. Couldn't quite make out your domain name in the 7/13/2008 message, but I found your juno addy on your blog. Oh, RATRAT . . . LOL. Len Cooley

QSL? YES! We QSL 100 Per Cent!

One of the most enjoyable aspects of being involved with This week in Amateur Radio is to answer requests for our official TWIAR QSL Card. We started issuing QSL cards back in 2005 and at the time, most of the reception reports originated from listeners to our TWIARi broadcastheard each week over WBCQ at 7415 KHz, currently Sundays at 4PM Eastern Time.

But over the years, there has been a shift from this more traditional reception to Internet podcast listening, so these days virtually all This Week in Amateur Radio requests come from podcast listeners. Jeffery Dubin of lake In The Hills, Illinois dropped an e-mail. Checking for his address at QRZ.com, I found his QSL card and a descriptive background.. Let us know you're out there. Drop an e-mail to: n2fnh@capital.net or send a classic reception report to: This Week in Amateur Radio Post Office Box 30, Sand Lake, New York, 12153.

Hello, my name is Jeffrey and living In Lake In The Hills, IL I am married to my beautiful wife Rachel who has a huge interest in Amateur Radio. Also, have a son Ethan who was born 11/12/05. Both of them are my two joys in life. I have been licensed since 1991. Since then I have upgraded to Extra class. I Obtained my Extra right before they got rid of the 20 wpm CW requirements "Figures!!". I enjoy Contesting and of course I love DX'ing. I have always been a DX chaser and to this day I am always looking for more DX stations to talk too, and more QSL cards to place on the wall. I started a local group in the McHenry Co area called McHenry Co Monitoring Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MHCMG/ or check out our website at http://www.mhcmg.com. We, meet once a month for a casual break-fest just to chit chat about Ham Radio stuff or scanners. I, just renewed my VE certification for the ARRL. So, hoping to be testing new members or anyone who's interested. Currently in search for 2 other VE's in the area to get a VE team started.

My station: TS-850S, Ameritron AL-811 Linear, Pentium 4 computer, Sony Viso Laptop which allows me to control the whole HF station, 10' roof-tower, CC A3S (3 ele tri-bander for 10,15,20M), and a Scantenna antenna for my scanners (Bearcat 996T Base and a Bearcat 796D Mobile) A Dual band vertical for my VHF/UHF base. Cushcraft A27010S for 2M/70CM. Also, just built a 800MHz Yagi for monitoring 800MHz trunking stuff. I run an EchoLink node #198432 on frequency 146.445 MHz with a PL of 173.8. Right now the computer that runs the node is DEAD so bare with me on putting the node back online soon. This spring is when I plan on getting busy with new antenna projects!!! You can check out my where-abouts at http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/find.cgi?N9MXT-9 This is a tracker in my vehicle! Current modes I run are D-Star with my IC91AD and APCO25 with my Motorola Astro Saber III. I monitor the N9OZB repeater in the shack all the time and also FISHFAR. Well I plan on getting a mobile Astro soon and a D-STAR mobile soon.

Well, hope to see and meet all of you someday!