More Outgoing QSL cards

I'm member of the ARRL so I take advantage of their Outgoing QSL service. Like most Bureau services it does take a long time for cards sent back but You can't beat the price. During a recent Ham fest, an ARRL card checker was in attendance and I planned to have some old QSL cards checked towards VUCC and I also explored the possibility of checking for WAC. I found QSL cards for all Continents except Africa which surprised Me. I have many EQSL and LOTW verifications but no actual sent thru the mail QSL cards from anywhere in Africa or surrounding area--Wow!!
I had a small QSL shipment from the W0 bureau last fall and decided to include some QSL requests for contacts from the African continent of which I had many but whittled it down to only contacts that actually mentioned Bureau replies. That does thin the contacts by quite a large margin but enough so I feel confident of obtaining some replies-- maybe several Years from now but thats OK !
73--Tim

World Radio Day

Nice certificate emailed for contacting KP4FD during the "World Radio Amateur Day"
This just happened to be the only station I contacted for this particular event!
73--Tim

Montserrat for #121

My LOTW account was just updated with DXCC#121 from VP2MLL operating on 10m during the recent SSB contest from Montserrat. Montserrat had a devastating Volcano erupt in July 1995 and the damage to the southern part of the Island was severe enough to warrant moving the capital to the Northern part. The United Kingdom also made it easy to immigrate to the homeland since Montserrat is a territory of the UK. Alot more information is available online about this devastating event.
73--tim

Centennial Certificate

Just received My ARRL Centennial points certificate. Another nice piece of "wallpaper" to add to My shack. It was a fun challenge and I found Myself chasing points most nights!. Too bad I only started active pursuit in late October so I missed my chance for WAS and didn't reach the last level of the points challenge.It still was very satisfying to achieve 3rd level!
73--Tim

Caribbean trip

The view as We landed in San Juan, Puerto Rico.Our vacation during Spring Break was a Cruise from San Juan to Barbados,St Lucia,Antigua,St Maarten and St Croix on the Royal Caribbean ship "Adventure of the Seas". Lots of warm weather and Sun and just a very good time had by all! Very fun to visit Islands I've contacted thru Radio QSO's and to dream about a vacation expedition to any Island. Family vacations don't seem to lend themselves to that kind of pause in the itinerary!
73--Tim