What have we here? Looks like a letter from the Azores!!! I don’t know why, but I have always enjoyed receiving these letters in the mail, and it brings me a little bit of joy to get them. Every time I see one of these, I get excited, no matter how long I have done this. This is why I still have QSL cards that I send out from time to time as well. The clue that it’s a QSL card is the Amateur Radio call signs on the envelope and typically the foreign postage is another clue as I normally do not write letters to people overseas.
Look at that antenna! No wonder he could hear me with my little paltry 5 watts of transmitter power. Normally, the stations that are overseas that actually will respond to my CQs when I do a POTA activation, are using antennas like this, or something similar and very high-quality receivers because I am transmitting into a compromise antenna with just five watts or maybe even less sometimes.
It never fails to amaze me how economically this postcard can be transported from one location on the globe to another for just a buck or two that astounds me due to the economy involved in moving this piece of paper.
Thanks for tagging along this morning while I drink my cup of coffee and read my cool letter from the Azores and until next time get your radio out and go make some contacts with it.
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