[BC] beverages & qsling AM'ers

[Timothy West]

>  Same here. Last QSL request I received included a picture of a 1500m
> antenna which looked to me like a section of power line that had been
> abandoned. It looked like the wire was about 30' off the ground.  
> The guy
> rented a cabin "up north" somewhere and spent his week vacation  
> there every
> year, doing DX.

pretty cool. the guys ant was obviously working, but 30' off the  
ground is very high for a terminated beverage. Being in Sweden maybe  
there's a reason. 30 inches would be more like it. was that a typo by  
chance?

on QSL's, how many card requests come in from AM dxers these days? I  
used to chase dx on the AM band with a Drake SPR-4 circa 1977. the  
ratio of requests to cards received was pretty good as I remember.  
many of the engineers would write additional notes and some would  
include photos.
As a rule, the smaller the station, the more they seemed to care  
about reception reports. I got to the point
where I just couldn't dig anything else out and moved up to the latin  
america tropical bands. Those guys would go crazy over a reception  
report from the US. English to Spanish & vice versa never seemed to  
be an issue.

thanks for the heads up on the level of calibrated attenuation map.  
Should have known teh Man would have had it.

TW