  FROM JAN (K6HHD) for Issue 170 (June 17, 1994):
    
Dear Subscribers and Friends,

     Jay's column  is must  reading this  month.   This issue, #170, is the
last newsprint  edition that  we will produce.  We will continue to publish
the information  the same  as we  have for  the last  15 years,  but we are
hoping that  by discontinuing the printed copy as you know it, that we will
recover enough  time to give us some "breathing space".  Quite frankly this
is imperative for our continued health and well being.

     For those  of you  who do not have computers so you can use GOLIST, or
terminals so  that you  can use  PacketCluster, there will still be printed
help available.   It will be in The DX Magazine.  If all goes well you will
receive a preview of this in the July/August issue of The DX Magazine.  The
plan is  that all  current subscribers  to The  W6GO/K6HHD QSL Manager List
will receive  that issue  of The  DX Magazine  as a  sample (IF you are not
already a  subscriber to  that magazine).   Your  subscription  to  The  DX
Magazine should begin with the September/October issue (current subscribers
to the  magazine will  receive appropriate  extensions).   In the meantime,
consider the options as detailed in Jay's column.

     We have  been contributing QSL information to The DX Magazine since it
began.   The new format for QSL information in the magazine will be greatly
expanded information  and will  look lots more like what you are accustomed
to seeing  in this  publication.   I will  continue to  provide updates  on
happenings at the O'Brien DX Farm.

     K3BYV is  the correct QSL route for PZ5JR.  U.S. contacts need to send
SASE, Bob  WILL answer  bureau cards from DX stations.  Cards sent to N3CXM
via the  bureau will  probably be  destroyed as he is not in the states and
has no  envelopes on  file at  the bureau.   Also K3BYV would like it known
that his  address is  correct in the Callbook (and the Buckmaster database)
but some  other datebase  out there somewhere has his box number incorrect,
he has  noted this  on many  cards he  has received  lately.   The  correct
address is:   Bob  Mantell, PO  Box 2137,  Brevard, NC 28712.  K3BYV is QSL
Manager for PZ5JR, PZ5DX, TG5ITS, TG9TSS, KB0HML/TG6 and P29NB.

     Summer has  arrived for sure.  We are having days with temperatures in
the 90's  (F.)   Thank goodness  for air  conditioning, I'm  not nearly  as
tolerant of  the heat as I used to be.  We do run the air conditioner a lot
less since  we installed  a whole  house fan  last year.   It really does a
great job and is quieter than the cooler.

     The crows  have been completely thwarted by a hen and five chicks that
have been  very clever  at staying  out of  their clutches.   They do their
pecking and  scratching right  along a fence and when the crows come around
the chicks  duck under  the bottom fence board.  The only way the crows can
get the  babies is to swoop down and grab them on the fly, which they can't
do if the chicks aren't out in the open.

     
                               73,  Jan K6HHD
                        Copyright (c) 1994 W6GO/K6HHD

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