HH2/VE2TKH Log uploaded to online logsearch. All QSL requests Direct and Bureau will be posted very soon.
9M6XRO 17/01/10 0950z LoTW, Club Log & Online logsearch uploaded
OY1OF 15/01/10 2226z LoTW, Club Log & Online logsearch uploaded
OY4TN 10/01/09 612z LoTW, Club Log & Online logsearch uploaded
ZC4VJ 11/01/10 0504z Online logsearch uploaded
19/01/2010 142 letters to be posted. Including Bureau cards to Ukraine, Russia, Japan, Italy and Germany.
It is now several days since the earthquake disaster struck Haiti. Words cannot describe what the Haitians are going through. We, as Radio Amateurs must do whatever is needed to help our dear friends in Haiti.
VE2TKH Steve has recently just arrived back in Canada after his December trip to Haiti, Steve is heading back to Haiti to help friends and their family I will let Steve explain more….
Mr. Jean Robert Gaillard HH2JR whom I am without news from him since the quake. (Ed we now know that Jean is safe) Please if any ham around this world can have some news about our friend Jean-Robert, please share them with us.
I am personally planning with my family and canadians hams friends to go back there to help my friends and a canadian NGO who made a statement today calling for help from radio amateurs to establish an emergency station in or near there office in Port-au-Prince. As far as I am concern, I’ll gladly help them. I’ll call for your help in donations to OFFICIALS sources of help like the Red Cross, Doctors without Borders, Architect without Borders, Oxfam, UNICEF, World Vision, Care International or CECI (NGO fm Canada). All these organisations are there in Port-au-Prince, I personally saw their office buildings while I was there between Nov 18th and Dec 15th of 2009.
About me, to go there and help, I’ll need some money, but not that much, only what’s needed to cover the plane airfare, the food, the public transport there, and few bucks to buy what my friends will need to comfort them, secure them and feed them. I am contacting now 3 ot 4 radio amateurs who can help building a campaign to raise money to help me in this project to help these haitians people woh really deserve my participation in this relief effort. Surely one of a kind in human History, such as what was done for the 2004 asian Tsunami. To be honest, I’ll turn 33 years old next january 29th and I truly can not stay here in Quebec City doing nothing, absolutely not. Let’s see how we can rally all together as radio amateurs for a common cause, MANKIND. Let’s prove our humanism! the amount of money is not that big comparatively at what it will serve for and do for these people. I have a valid and verified account with PayPal since 2001, things will be easy for all who will be willing to help me a bit.
Infos will follow later on here on how to support me and my project. Pictures showing humanism, not horror, humanism will be provided to you via this website. I personally guarantee that. I’ll try to do the best pictures report I can while time will be allowed for that aspect that is not on top of my list. By the way, here is my list of things i want to do once there.
1- Landing in Puerto Plata, reaching Pétionville via Toussaint Louverture airport road then Route de Frère that connect to Impasse Lavache in Delmas 95 where my 6 friends and 2009 hosts lives.
2- Secure them, feed them, search for missing ones, support them, help them, etc
3- Do the same for the 20 – 25 or so other relatives of my 6 friends. And try to learn about our ham friend Jean-Robert HH2JR, even help him or his family if I can.
4- Help the Canadian NGO/ONG build and/or operate their emergency station.
5- Find an internet access to communicate how things are going on there for the people and about me.
6- Take some pictures showing what us as human beings can do when we rally to help our fellow mans.
7- Coming back to Canada only once evryone I know is ok, burried or in an hospital. Also, coming back only when things will quiet down a bit and life will start to recover a normal paste. It will take the time it will take…
8- These main goals will be brought into focus in their order if possible, but be aware that some of them will be done at the same time or on the same day. Some of them will cross each other. It’s just a list after all.
I truly hope this new experience for me will be one in a lifetime and will show me how I can impact my world. Honestly, we can all have positive impacts on our World. It is up to us, it is inside us, our hearts, our brains, our blood and our veins. Just a simple or little act can do a lot, like the butterfly effect. Thanks.
Steve Toupin VE2TKH
If you would like to donate to Steve to help friends in Haiti you can send a Paypal donation to [email protected]
IMPORTANT Use Personal then GIFT to send the Paypal donation then no charges will be deducted. THANK YOU!
Incoming Bureau cards arrived 22nd December 2009 for the follaowing call series.
1,100 QSL Cards for the G4Dxx – Sorted and dispatched 23rd December 2009
500 QSL Cards for the G4Rxx – Sorted and dispatched 23rd December 2009
1,800 QSL Cards Via M0URX also arrived. ALL QSL cards have now been processed. Bureau cards will be dispatched soon. Thank you to Chris G1VDP for helping with sorting duties.
Outgoing Post – January 2nd 2010
2,500 Outgoing Bureau cards in 60 packages, total weight 13kg to be posted 02/01/2010
116 Outgoing letters to be posted 02/01/2010
Still no news on Outgoing QSL Cards that have not left the RSGB Bureau since March 2008.
News from the Hungarian QSL Bureau – Jenci HA5FA reports that my packet of cards to MRASZ has arrived. Thanks Jenci for the information.
12/01/2010 – Yuri UT7UW informs me that my package of Bureau cards arrived at the Ukraine Bureau this week. Thanks Yuri
Please remember send your Bureau Request Via Email – NOT through the Bureau system for DX,peditions & DX stations that I manage. This will help save time and money. Thank you!
Happy New Year to you all. Have a safe and peaceful festive season.
HH2/VE2TKH: Dec. 13th UPDATE Operation will end on Dec 15th around 07:00z-08:00z probably on 40m. Tnx to DX callers even if my signal was weak I worked most of you. Special tnx to Laurie VK7ZE for his call from Tasmania, he is in the log and I’m in his log. Pretty interesting QSO with my 5 foot screwdriver antenna. Haiti is a great country if it can stay quiet. Labadee is a very nice tourist destination with a brand new warf that can welcome any big ship from Carnival to Cunar cruiselines. WX is great at this time of the year.
You can be safe if you stick to areas like Petionville, Kenscoff, Port-au-Prince downtown or Canape-Vert only by daytime. By nightime you must go out with good haitians friends and a car, otherwise it is very risky.
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You must absolutely avoid Cite Soleil and Bel-Air like I did. I am lucky that in those 28 days here, that I wasn’t sick at all. You only need to drink Culligan, Aquafine, Crystal or others purified source water, also being careful where you eat and what is in your plate. Have fun if you visit here someday like I did, for myself I had plenty of fun here. More pics to come when back in Quebec City. Regards de Steve. HH2/VE2TKH
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Log updates have arrived from:
OY1OF 04/01/10 1605z LoTW uploaded.
OY4TN 31/12/09 1210z LoTW uploaded
ZC4VJ 31/12/09 2243z ZC4VJ QSL arrived from the printers 08/12/09
9M6XRO 05/12/09 1103z LoTW uploaded.
9M6DXX 04/12/09 1410z LoTW uploaded.
Logs have been uploaded to the online log search.
09/12/2009 – 293 Letters to be posted. Including 650 QSL cards to 42 World Bureaus.
31/12/2009 – Sadly still no news from the RSGB in response to my complaints about non delivery of outgoing Bureau QSL cards dating back to March 2008.
December 7th UPDATE Batteries powered operation courtesy from Nadia Dieudonne. Propagation concerns and antenna performance restricted sometime. I want to express my sinceres thanks to Mr. Jean-Robert Gaillard, HH2JR for his kind help to obtain HH licence. WX is stil amazingly good and local food too. Also, my special thanks to Tim M0URX and ON5UR for QSL cards. I want to express the same gratefulness to Col, MM0NDX for publishing infos on his website. Still SPARE TIME operation, tnx for understanding. Maybe more time will be available on ”AIR” next visit here. Regards from Petionville.
Dec.3th UPDATE Still 2 hours to 3 hours a day batteries powered spare time operation going with very low propagation from Haiti. Power can fail at any time, so sorry if you notice my signal disappearing suddently. Still paper logging. Now a little about Haitian life. Port-au-Prince is really nice and cool despite all being said by global worldwide medias. You can eat with your wife or girlfriend for less than 10 USD for both in a restaurant. An Haitian beer named ‘’Prestige’’ is 0.75 USD and any kind of sodas are 0.33 USD in the streets (a bit more in restaurants and nightclubs). People are kind, friendly and smiling a lot. Weather is very very good since I came last Nov. 18th with only two little shower in two evenings in a row (Nov 27th and 28th). On december 1st, I went to the National Museum for 1.25 USD a visit and learned a lot about the history of this nation. I enjoy public community tranports called ‘’tap-tap’’ for 0.12 USD a ride nearly every days. Ladies are very beautiful all around here. Yeah ! Haiti way of life is good and I like it very much.
I really must say thank you to Kathy Allison KA1RWY at ARRLs LoTW desk. Without fail Kathy always works fast in dealing with emails and enquiries and new certificate requests. Thanks Kathy! You are a credit to ARRL.
The latest addition to my QSL Management is OY1OF Ólavur Frederiksen. OY1OF log has now been uploaded to LoTW.
(Also uploaded today is the latest log update from 9M6XRO)
Ólavur OY1OF Operates from the Faroe Islands Amateur Radio Club Station. He has been working on maintenance of the antenna systems at the club station recently preparing them for the winter weather that sweeps through the Faroe Islands.
Ólavur was born in 1970 in Tórshavn, the capital city of the Faroe Islands. he is a certified electrician and now works as a graphic printer, spending his spare time in Amateur Radio and photography, you can see some of his work here FaroePhoto
Steve, VE2TKH is on his travels this week. In an email from Haiti he explains that he has the Amateur Radio license in his hand and is operational from Petionville, (South East) Haiti as HH2/VE2TKH.
His license is valid from November 23 to December 15, 2009.
Steve explains power is currently only available between 0100 to 1100 UTC. He also reports laptop issues, however he hopes to overcome these problems soon.
When active, look for Steve to focus on 30m, 20m, 17m and 15m.
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More news to follow..
Here at United Radio QSL Bureau I have been asked if we can supply C6 114mm x 162mm Envelopes. Well yes we can but the postage obviously bumps the price up so it will be cheaper if you have a local supplier.
£25.00 GBP per Box – C6 114mm x 162mm Peel & Seal standard White 100Gsm Envelopes 500 per Box
Payable Via PayPal to [email protected]
Price includes delivery Worldwide. Delivery within 20 working days.
If this proves popular I will continue the offer.
(Excludes Falkland Isles)
