Your call minded me that I had a nice QSO once with KJ2U. Will let anyone curious look that one up…
The nice thing about having even a simple card is that you can build up a pretty neat collection, even if you only send them selectively. I also felt bad when someone would mail me a card and stamped envelope before I had one to return, so I hand sketched a few responses on notecards. I always enjoy seeing hand sketched cards in the old timers’ collections.
It is cool, but I feel the shame of never having cards or going on the air any more.
I dabbled with SOTA (Summits On The Air) a few years ago.
I bought some bits to make a rig interface for FT8, but they never got soldered up. I was going to put up an EFHW at home. Yet another hobby waiting for me to have free time!
I did a fairly deep dive into this (and actually got accepted into a programme at one of the Designated Organisations but haven't gone through with it yet).
It does seem that many (most?) of the accelerator/incubators are pay-to-play. Some are more upfront about this than others. Techstars Toronto would be a notable exception obviously.
I suspect there's a little bit of this pay-to-play at work in some of the angels and funds also who are Designated Organisations, but I can't say that for certain.
The other thing I've gleaned is that the process currently takes a LONG time - like 1 year plus.
There's a couple forums you can search for that active ongoing discussions from applicants.
Do you think you might be able to share some of the forums I could look for additional information? (Either here or through email if that's more comfortable)
I've tried searching and found a infrequently used forum at CanadaVisa, and an even smaller/older one at Immigroup, but neither had much.
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I have an M1 mini 2TB/16GB arriving next week. Will add comments when I get it - my primary dev environment is Docker + JetBrains, so we'll see how far I get in that.
I was thinking the same thing - probably the number that actually starts the course will be in the 90%s of the total and there will be a fair amount of attrition as the course proceeds.
It would be interesting to see what these numbers look like as well over the ten weeks.
KJ8T but I've never made my own QSL card...