Fwd: Re: [DX-CHAT] St. Helena Island ZD7

2006-05-18 Thread David McAulay
UTH ATLANTIC OCEAN Every one I've sent like that has been delivered and I've gotten return cards. Who stamped insufficient address, incidentally? If the USPS, someone needs to give their heads a shake. If Royal Mail, I'd be somewhat surprised. Cheers, Peter, W2IRT __

Re: [DX-CHAT] 2 DXpedition radios

2006-05-18 Thread Peter W2IRT
At 02:00 AM 05/18/2006, Charles Harpole wrote: User report on two possible DXpedition radios My two cents worth -- this year I went down to C6A with a new Icom IC-7000 and boy, what a fully-featured rig that is. Blows the 706 Mark2 G away hands down. Not the most selective receiver in the

Re: [DX-CHAT] St. Helena Island ZD7

2006-05-18 Thread Zack Widup
Good thing you weren't trying to mail to Malyj Vysotskij or Myanmar. (Tell 'em Myanmar is where Burma Shave came from). :-) 73, Zack W9SZ On Thu, 18 May 2006, Tom Johnson wrote: > A friend of mine from Zimbabwe visited a while back and we went to the USPS > to mail a package home. The idio

Re: [DX-CHAT] St. Helena Island ZD7

2006-05-18 Thread Tom Johnson
A friend of mine from Zimbabwe visited a while back and we went to the USPS to mail a package home. The idiot at the counter was adamant that there was no such place as Zimbabwe and we nearly had to get a supervisor before the package was accepted. That was a topic of conservation for the re

Re: [DX-CHAT] St. Helena Island ZD7

2006-05-18 Thread DAVE WHITE
Royal Mail (for all their other faults) are usually pretty good at this kind of thing.  Since St Helena is so small, I'd have thought that if it got to the post office there, then it would have been delivered.  Hell, I've received cards via Royal Mail addressed to "Amateur Radio G0OIL, Sheffield, E