Roger J. Wendell
Defending 3.8 Billion Years of Organic EvolutionSM
Wooden (!) and other QSL Cards of interest:
(I Return QSL 100%!)
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Me and W6MRV!
Can you imagine the excitement of a 14-year-old not only working a class operator, like W6MRV, but then receiving a wooden QSL card! I'll have to say that W6MRV's QSL was probably the most unusual (and most valued!) QSL card I ever received. This was back in the days before the U.S. Postal Service used any automated equipment so I'm sure such a card wouldn't survive today's mail processing equipment - at least not for six cents!!
My CW QSO with W6MRV took place on August 2, 1970, back when I was still WN6CDA. Lou's*Hey, this was 1970 and MHz hadn't been "invented" yet!
note on the front of the card confirms that our CW contact was made on 7.163 MC* (40 meters). In
the photo (below) you can still see the original 6 cent postage stamp attached to his wooded card.
W6MRV's wooden QSL card
Six cents postage!
Here's the card I mailed to Louis
(It was 1970 and I was 14 years old).
In November 2008, about a decade after I created this QSL card page, Carl Champion wrote me from the Bay Area to say he knew and remembered Lou Perasso. Here's what Carl wrote me about W6MRV (With his permission): Roger, I found the pic.
I was looking for something else and found it in a place I would not have guessed. Better to be lucky than smart! I have no idea who the second man is though. In the original photo you can see water in the background, could be S.F. bay and could be a picnic area at a place called Coyote Point- just a guess but it fits and popped into my mind as soon as I looked at the photo. The trees are young eucalyptus and Coyote Point is covered with this tree (now considered a "weed" by many). I remember discovering this photo several times over the past 40+ years and despite having no reason to keep it Lou was such a nice man, and invoked such good thoughts, I could not help but save it.
May God bless him.
Thanks for bringing a worthy man back into my mind Roger, Lou is deserving of rememberance.
Thanks, Carl C.
Other QSL cards in my life!
The second card is from when 9TW worked the Coast Guard's experimental station in 1924. (This QSL is also from the collection of Ken Yarcho, son of 9TW)
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My first card in 1970, age 14
The Station was located at the Coast Guard's Training Center ("TRACEN") near
Petaluma, California and was mostly used by students from Radioman "A" School where I was a student in 1975. Click HERE to see photos of the station...
KH6UL's 1975 QSL card - "Uncle Louie" was located at NAVCAMS EASTPAC near Wahiawa, Oahu,
Hawaii. I was the station "manager" from about 1975 to 1977 (I was 19 years old at the time) - click Here to see some photos of the station plus a Navy newspaper article substantiating my claim to the manager's job!
K6LY's 1977 QSL card - The Station was located at the Naval Post Graduate School in Monterey, California. As a Coast Guard Radioman from down the road (Coast Guard Group Station Monterey) I was allowed membership in the club a the time.
The first card, on the left, is 9TW's 1920s QSL card - This is from the collection of Ken Yarcho, a friend
and climbing leader in the Colorado Mountain Club. Ken's father, Carl, was a Ham in Illinois, operating later out of Colorado as WØTW.
The Colorado QRP Club was started in 1994 by a dozen of us in the Denver Metro area. By the time this card was printed, in 2011, we had well over 900 members and I was keeping pretty darn busy as the club's treasurer and webmaster!
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