QSL information for 4A2Q

Realizing that 4A2Q would be using an unusual Mexican prefix, Patrick WD9EWK offered to be the QSL manager for the 4A2Q group.  By doing this, it provides a USA mailing address and QSL-bureau route for those wanting a QSL card from 4A2Q, and avoids potential problems in using the XE QSL bureau system and problems coupled with higher international postal rates from the Mexican postal system.  In addition to the QSL manager information WD9EWK has online, this page has specific information on how to obtain a 4A2Q QSL card. 

If you want to receive a QSL card directly from 4A2Q, please follow these instructions depending on the QTH of your mailing address: 

• USA mailing addresses:  Please include an SASE with a 42-cent USA stamp on the envelope with your QSL request to WD9EWK
• Canada mailing addresses:  Four options are available for Canadian hams wanting a card directly from 4A2Q: 
  1. Please include an SASE with 72 cents USA postage on the envelope
  2. Please include an SAE with 2 domestic-rate Canadian stamps not stuck on the envelope (those stamps are roughly equivalent to the USA stamps I will put on your SAE, when mailing your 4A2Q QSL)
  3. Please include an SAE with a "green stamp" or new IRC.
  4. (NOT RECOMMENDED)  Please include an SASE with a domestic rate Canadian stamp on your SASE.  I will mail these from a Canadian post office, but cannot guarantee when this would happen - depending on when I am in Canada to do this. 
• Mexico mailing addresses:  Four options are available for XE hams wanting a card directly from 4A2Q: 
  1. Mail a card with SASE (6.50 pesos Mexican postage) to this address:
     Radio Club Memoria
     Apartado Postal 19
     81200 - Los Mochis, Sinaloa
  2. Include an SASE (6.50 pesos Mexican postage) with your card to WD9EWK, and your card will be mailed from a Mexican post office - only 3-4 hours away from the WD9EWK QTH.
  3. Include an SASE (72 cents USA postage) with your card to WD9EWK, and your card will be mailed from the USA.
  4. Include an SAE with either a "green stamp" or new IRC with your card to WD9EWK.
• All other DX stations:  Please include an SASE with 94 cents USA postage, or an SAE with either a new IRC or "green stamp" for the return postage, in your QSL request to WD9EWK.

Patrick STODDARD
P.O. Box 1934
Scottsdale AZ 85252-1934
U.S.A.

Non-USA stations are welcome to send QSL cards for 4A2Q through the QSL-bureau system via WD9EWK. 

If you would like to view a sample of the 4A2Q QSL cards, we have those images online - please click here to get to the 4A2Q QSL card.  Our cards were printed in Spain by Rod EA7JX (www.qslcard.org) (thanks Rod!). 

Apparently, in the past - at least as far back as the early 1980s - other groups have used the 4A2Q call.  WD9EWK does NOT have any logs for those operations.  WD9EWK can ONLY verify contacts for this weekend in May 2003, so please save your IRCs/bureau fees/"green stamps" if you are trying to confirm a 4A2Q QSO from the 1980s or 1990s. 

If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to contact 4A2Q via e-mail, at the address listed on QRZ.com. 

Updated 26 September 2008