All, I hope everyone has a chance to enjoy the holiday season and that the New Year brings a safer world to all of us . Things are progressing with the awards program. Ernie WM2U has been busy develop

All, I just got my order of GAPA "QSL" cards from UX5UO. Try turned out great. The idea is have some of these on hand and when mail out a QSL card, add one of these to the envelope. If you are interes

I periodically check the hits on 3 of my web sites. What happened? GAPA took 637 hits in about 2 weeks. !! Normally my sites will get hit maybe 30 times in that period. Ernie wm2u

We got a nice blurb at ARRL for GAPA: The Grid and Prefix Award Program (GAPA) has announced the establishment of a comprehensive Digital Awards Program. Awards are available for radio amateurs and sh

Good to hear from you again Alan. I, too, got the proverbial care package from Ernie today. Agreed; the awards program *is engaging. Very much so. For my part, I've been emailing contacts, thanking th

All, I have been talking to Ernie about this idea for while and just ordered some of these QSL sized cards about GAPA. The idea being when a QSL card is mailed out, to have one of these to include in

All, Finally got six different grids for Manitoba VE4, been looking since 2015. I can believe everyone there lives in Winnipeg EN19. I have at least 50 confirmations for the Winnipeg area. Now I just

All, The man behind the curtain has been busy redesigning the Neptune Award for confirmed contacts with marine mobile QSOs in grid squares that do not touch land. Recent changes in LOTW have made it e

Hi Ken, No problem - we're here to assist! Regarding starting your submission: claimed confirmed QSOs are entered into an Excel Spreadsheet in a predesigned (by Ernie) format. Your confirmed QSOs are

All, I had a thought here as I was mailing out a QSL card. It would be no problem to add something extra to a stamped envelope QSL REPLY and still stay under an ounce. It might be an idea to design an

Good idea Alan. Me, I'm an active traffic handler, and so I get numerous messages addressed to brand new hams who are being congratulated. It would take like zero effort for me to echo that thought an

All, I hope everyone is well and staying safe. Our Anchorage newspaper is selling t-shirts that say, "Alaska - Social Distancing Since 1959". I'm thinking that's true. 59 is when we entered statehood.

Hi Guys, Talked to Leslie earlier today, she is doing OK. Just wanted to check in with you all and see if you are hunkered down or at least in Lock Down. :-) Fran and I are doing well and keeping busy

On 3/7/2020 3:34 PM, Ernest Mills wrote: Hi Rich, I already use a great and comprehensive pdf software package for other work I do. I have stopped upgrading it however since the supplier has joined Mi

OK you can now claim a DX BAR with any PINNACLE Award entity. This is back to Pre-PINNACLE Award DX listings. Ernie wm2u

All, Hope everyone is well. Just found the sixth grid for Manitoba/VE4, pretty much everyone lives in Winnipeg! I have a long way to go on VO1 and VO2. Still digging for a VK8 that lives outside Darwi

All, The RDRC promotes a digital activity period every Saturday morning that highlights different modes. It might be something of interest to those looking for a break from FT8 and wanting to pick up

The Sao Tome Island DXPedition runs several more days. It it turning out to be the FT8 DXPedition of the year with the vast majority of their QSOs on this mode. S9A was on 20M again this afternoon wit

Hi Ernie, I've started to compose an email to these two errant hams about falling short on the GAPA Submission, but the emails just didn't sit right with me. So too bad for them. Thanks for reminding

All, Glad to see new members to the list. Which provinces are tough for you? Right now I think everyone in VE4 lives in Winnipeg and VK8 in Darwin. I have multiple contacts in VK8 and one grid. One pl