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Offline ChrisSmolinski

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Some Old Pirate QSLs
« on: January 19, 2018, 2344 UTC »
While going through some old books, I found a long lost binder of pirate QSLs. I'll post some of them over the next week or two, they're mostly from the 90s and early 2000s.













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Re: Some Old Pirate QSLs
« Reply #1 on: January 20, 2018, 0838 UTC »
Hey! Two and half of those are mine. Boy, I put a lot of work into the VOAB and RPMI ones. No wonder people still pester me for them?

Radio Al Fansome QSL's always mystified me. They would arrive at peoples house's before I had a chance to print them up after the transmissions. It's beyond human comprehension.
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Re: Some Old Pirate QSLs
« Reply #2 on: January 20, 2018, 1359 UTC »
I found another VOAB QSL, I must have cornered the market on your QSLs.  The back says 15 watts (actually I think they all do), so I assume a grenade?
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Re: Some Old Pirate QSLs
« Reply #3 on: January 20, 2018, 2340 UTC »
Yep.

All of my show's were "one-offs" even if they were prerecorded. I would only run old programming if I didn't have anything that needed to be relayed after the new show and didn't feel like heading home yet.
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Re: Some Old Pirate QSLs
« Reply #4 on: January 21, 2018, 0508 UTC »
Pigmeat, all those promised QSLs.....  ;D
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Re: Some Old Pirate QSLs
« Reply #5 on: January 22, 2018, 1830 UTC »
Just copy those, paste over Chris's name, and stick your name on 'em. It works for me.  We all know Giovanni Bellabarba did just that as soon as they went up.

Giovanni was a determined man. He'd claim he'd heard me under conditions where I couldn't have been heard 70 feet away much less 7000 miles during broad daylight. I've got a box full of stuff he sent me over the years.
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Re: Some Old Pirate QSLs
« Reply #6 on: January 22, 2018, 2058 UTC »
Dearest Pigglet,

I was thinking tech today allows all sort of networking. Indeed, if one wished you could get a small 15 watt transmitter in every state and play radio.
I'd call it the swarm!

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Re: Some Old Pirate QSLs
« Reply #7 on: January 23, 2018, 1624 UTC »
I actually thought about it once on a regional basis, as a 10-15 watt tx puts out a solid signal to about 600 miles. You would have to run diff. frequencies for all but the furthest apart due to HF propagation, otherwise you'd have a bunch of overlapping signals in parts of the country, which would make a fine racket, but would likely be unlistenable.

Imagine the fun of doing it all on one frequency in SSB in the same manner, from different spots, all in sync? Sweet Jesus, that pile of noise would wake the dead!
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Re: Some Old Pirate QSLs
« Reply #8 on: January 24, 2018, 0157 UTC »
 I used to live 30 miles from my low power college station. They were essentially unreadable, but the channel was empty.
I got a 20 watt FM stereo transmitter, GP antenna, mounted same on roof. Then set frequency same as college station.
Connected I Net feed and it extended their range !!
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