[Dx-qsl] Veteran DX QSL Manager W3HNK Marks 50 Years of Service

Fri Aug 9 09:42:28 EDT 2013

Thanks Joe!
It's been 50 years this month since now-veteran QSL manager Joe 
Arcure, W3HNK, began serving as a QSL manager for DX stations, 
starting with ZE4JS (Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe). Since then he 
has handled QSLing chores for more than 400 DX stations, and anyone 
with DX QSL cards likely has one in the collection that W3HNK 
handled. Licensed in 1956, W3HNK was bitten by the DX bug the 
following year and, as he puts it on his 
<http://www.qrz.com/db/W3HNK>QRZ.com page, "was off in a world of DX 
chasing." He has operated from several spots in the Caribbean under 
various call signs. Joe says that after he signed aboard as QSL 
manager for ZE4JS, he "kept adding call signs through the latter part 
of the 1960s, all the 70s, 80s and 90s," and the rest is history. 
Although he retired in 1998, Joe remains "active with the 
pasteboards," as he puts it. W3HNK is a member of the CQ DX Hall of 
Fame, class of 1979. Congratulations, Joe, and thanks for you
http://www.arrl.org/news/veteran-dx-qsl-manager-w3hnk-marks-50-years-of-service
Jack Hartley
K4WSB / VP2MSB
#1 DXCC Honor Roll
QCWA OOTC
"Celebrating over 1/2 century in Ham Radio"