We have ordered 1500 QSL cards from Globalqsl.com company. It took us almost 1 1/2 months to get them. On Friday, February 13, 2009 QSL cards have finally arrived to Almaty. As of Sunday, February 15, we have started dispatching them to our correspondents. The first ones to get our QSL cards will be...
After completing our operation on December 6, 2008 we have made a quick survey of our results: each of us have made 1000 QSOs. Unique correspondents: 900- 8Q7GC and 930 - 8Q7GU. DXCC worked: 54 - 8Q7GC and 58 - 8Q7GU. We hope that next time we can do much better. However, considering the vacat...
After a 30 minute flight from Male with the Maldivian air commuter we have finally ditched on the water close to our destination - Sun Island. The total flight distance was just over 100 km. The flight was smooth and exciting. We managed to see much of the local scenery as we flew by numerous isla...
After 4.5 hours flight from Almaty on a comfortable Boeing 767-300 we have landed in Dubai International airport. The flight was very nice. No bumps in the air. We actually expected some issues upon departure from Almaty due to 'imperfections' in current customs legslation since we were taking our...
On November 19, 2008 I received a phone call from Vladimir, UN9LW, who was surprised to find out from the website for Kazakh radio amateurs that we are going to Maldives. He told me that by chance they are also going to the same island about one week earlier to take part in the annual CQ WW contes...