This post was published on 02 Jun 2009

I can say that I have received more than 300 QSL cards since Jan 2008 via my ordinary PO Box here in Khartoum and I have started replying the cards after I was printed my own in Oct 2008. I know that many amateurs thought that they have been cheated because of my late reply, but anything here in Sudan takes a lot of time to be ready!.

ST2EB QSL Card - Front

I was take a lot of time to make a design for my QSL card, many foreign amateurs and groups came to Sudan, but their cards was reflecting only bad images of the country, I try to give other amateurs who do not know anything about Sudan another side of the story, e.g. you can find Sudanese National Radio Amateur, practicing this hobby from Sudan!. Or in general you can LIVE in Khartoum! Sudan is not only a field of WAR and FAMINE!!! There is another activities practiced everyday in the country, starting from hobbies to business! So I was searched on the internet and other sources to find only one picture to say all what I need to say, it is not a secret to say that the picture itself took more than 3 months to be found!

After I found that picture, I turned to the back of the card and took 2 weeks to finish, and then I try to find a printing press that can give me a good quality of printing. So the design has been sent to Syria to print there. In a period of 3 weeks I received my cards in my hand and starting to send replies to amateurs around the world!

For the first time I found myself in front of more than 200 QSL cards without replying, so I search in QRZ.COM to find who can receive QSL Card via his bureau and email others asking them if they accept that , many of them was cooperative people. I do that because I do not want to make any more delays for amateurs. So I sent my QSL cards to many amateurs via their bureaus in the first month to finalize that congestion. Now I am in normal situation so I can send QSL cards easily without any delaying.

As I told you before in a post, my cards has been sent from Sudan to Nicaragua (to YN2N) and back again to me, not only to Nicaragua but also to Thailand, California, Puerto Rico, etc..!