I have been working with a contact at AFN for quite some time on the QSL situation. A formal announcement is expected soon, but some techs at the relay sites have been leaking details recently. I am not sure at all that the QSL link on the AFN website is working, nor I am sure it will be used when the new QSL answering service is set up. When I get the official news, I will release it via DXLD and you will see it here. Last I heard, we were about 4-6 weeks away. I have been relaying updates from this source to Glenn and NASWA over the last several weeks.
Also, contrary to reports in other SW pubs, the AFN maintains that these relays are supposed to be 24/7 and not subject to shutdown for priority military traffic. The feeds are unmanned. They are interested in reports of reception and non-reception as DXers are often the first to alert them to a transmitter that is off the air. The source told me in one email that they know when Key West is off the air because they receive complaints from yachtsmen and charter fishing boats when the broadcasts are down!!! Russ Lay ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- World Radio TV Handbook 2006 is out. Order yours from http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0823059367/hardcoredxcom/ ---[End Commercial]----------------------- ________________________________________ Hard-Core-DX mailing list [email protected] http://arizona.hard-core-dx.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ _______________________________________________ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
