Last year when I had enough cards for 6 meters VUCC, it took me a few weeks to find a card checker. The list I received from the ARRL had a lot of emails that bounced, and I received a lot of responses saying "I no longer check cards". I finally found one after about 8 attempts and all went well.
I now have more than enough cards to qualify for satellite VUCC, and I emailed the card checker who I used last year for 6 meters a couple of weeks ago, and have not heard a response.
So is there an ARRL card checker in Florida, or near Florida who can help me please?
The ARRL didn't seem to be too concerned that their list was not up to date (based on not even receiving a reply from them, and even after offering my services to be a card checker), so I figure someone on here is either a card checker, or has used one recently.
73 de W4AS Sebastian
Hey Sebastian,
Not sure about Florida checkers ... but I wonder if you have any hamfests coming up near you? You'll often find clubs that will offer card-checking at hamfests. I know a couple of guys who've had their cards checked at hamfests up in this part of the world to either earn their initial VUCC or to earn an endorsement.
Best of luck finding someone, and contgratulations on reaching Satellite VUCC.
73,
Tim - N3TL -------------- Original message from Sebastian w4as@miamisky.com: --------------
Last year when I had enough cards for 6 meters VUCC, it took me a few weeks to find a card checker. The list I received from the ARRL had a lot of emails that bounced, and I received a lot of responses saying "I no longer check cards". I finally found one after about 8 attempts and all went well.
I now have more than enough cards to qualify for satellite VUCC, and I emailed the card checker who I used last year for 6 meters a couple of weeks ago, and have not heard a response.
So is there an ARRL card checker in Florida, or near Florida who can help me please?
The ARRL didn't seem to be too concerned that their list was not up to date (based on not even receiving a reply from them, and even after offering my services to be a card checker), so I figure someone on here is either a card checker, or has used one recently.
73 de W4AS Sebastian
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Hi Tim, thanks for the quick reply. Unfortunately the major hamfests we had in Florida have already passed. Sure that would have been the easiest way to do it. I was stuck at about 90 confirmed for a couple of months, even though I had sent out a lot of cards, so fortunately I worked a few new hams and they are usually quite happy to QSL - BTW congratulations to K8GI who I had the pleasure to be his 1st satellite QSO recently and I received his card. Rick if you read this reflector, make sure you contact Amsat to get the 1st timer award (or whatever it is that it's called) and I'll get your card out tomorrow.
Tomorrow my rotor also goes out to Yaesu, my azimuth rotor stopped working just a few days after I received my LVB Tracker, so it looks like I'll be off the birds for a while. I took the rotor off the mast, and brought it inside and used a smaller cable and it does the same thing, constant hum, and it's stuck at 180 degrees south, and every time power is applied it attempts to try to continue to move south. I spoke to one of their techs and he told me it was probably a potentiometer inside, based on the information I gave him. I mention this because I did some searching on Google last night about Yaesu and their rotor repairs, and for everyone's information and contrary to popular belief, Yaesu continues to service their rotors.
73 de W4AS Sebastian
On Jun 3, 2009, at 7:09 PM, n3tl@bellsouth.net wrote:
Hey Sebastian,
Not sure about Florida checkers ... but I wonder if you have any hamfests coming up near you? You'll often find clubs that will offer card-checking at hamfests. I know a couple of guys who've had their cards checked at hamfests up in this part of the world to either earn their initial VUCC or to earn an endorsement.
Best of luck finding someone, and contgratulations on reaching Satellite VUCC.
73,
Tim - N3TL
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