QSL Catch Up

Slowly catching up on old QSL to return.   I have a small stack now.  It was a large stack!

All of the Japanese stations have been mailed to their Bureau.   Those Japanese stations that do not use JARL and do not indicate PSE QSL will be stored.  I'll get to the non-JARL PSE QSL stack later.

All of the EU/SA/AS stations marking PSE QSL have been mailed that I know of.  I may find more later when I go through other stacks.  But, I think I'm caught up.

(I wish there was an EU Bureau.. Is there one?)

Visited the local post office and here's the deal on card mailing.

If the letter contains the cards is both:  less than 0.25" thick AND less than 1 oz  then I can put the letter in the mailbox for sending.

If it is more than that (thicker or heavier) then I need to take it to the P.O.

Most DX mail for QSL will cost $1.40 per outgoing.

Two batches of new QSL cards are ordered so I will have some cards to send, once they arrive.  I found the last of the old stock and down to a handful now of the old Forest Picture of the QTH.

Old stock, running low:

The new cards are due to arrive in a couple months:

and

The card with the waterfall is upstream of Fall City (hence the name of the town -- Fall City).  The lodge at the edge, shown in the picture is Salish Lodge.   A 3* hotel (where they filmed Twin Peaks TV series many years ago.. That's the Lodge.)    If you are in the area, take WA-520 east (Evergreen Floating Point Bridge) over Lake Washington, continue to the end of 520, and take Highway 202 east. You'll come through Fall City, and then to Snoqualmie (  / snow - kwall - me / ). 

Find the falls along the way, it's hard to miss.

202 ends at a ghost town called Tanner, WA (which is no longer there, except a plaque by the road), but at the plaque, there is good trout fishing in the Snoqualmie River (FYI).

Interesting historical facts that are just idle rumors and what not:

The actual name was Falls City, but through turn-of-the-century administrative confusion, the "s" was removed.

Fall City used to be a telecommunications hub between the Seattle metro area and the eastern part of the state of Washington, as far as I have been told.  That is no longer the case.   Today, Fall City is a string of bars, a gun-shop and a few churches.  No Starbucks, no chain restaurants.    There is no public sewer -- its all septic, even downtown Fall City, so that limits expansion.

There used to be a gun shop / nursery (flowers/plants) at the corner of town called Guns and Roses (not making that up).  But they had to tear down and make way for the new turn-circle.  Eminent Domain.

Ah well. Those were the times.