[Dx-qsl] flulmoxxed

Thu Jan 26 19:38:46 EST 2006

Well Danny, at least you got a reply.
In 1990, I worked my first Cameroon station -- TJ/N3CRH. I couldn't tell
you how many times over the years I tried to pry a QSL card out. I finally
learned last year that ex-N3CRH and her OM (who's call is now expired),
who's retired from gov't service, have dropped out of Amateur Radio, sold
off their equipment, and presumably disposed of their logs and cards and so
forth.
It would have saved me some time, effort, and ,ドル if they had just replied
(once) something like what you heard. Would have also meant I'd've stopped
bugging them. I guess my requests just went straight to the circular file.
Oh well. At least, I worked TJ3G on 20 CW 2 years ago and got the card
right away, so it's no big deal to write the original QSO as a loss from the
standpoint of getting it confirmed. So it goes.
73, ron wn3vaw
-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:dx-qsl-bounces at mailman.qth.net]On Behalf Of Danny Douglas
Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 12:10 PM
To: DX-qsl at mailman.qth.net; dx-qso at yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Dx-qsl] flulmoxxed
After 40 plus years, I though I had seen near everything having to do with
QSL confirmations, but today I was taken aback by one of my own cards being
returned, with a note "NOLOGS - NO CARDS CANT VERIFY TOO LONG AGO" This
was a (at least) third attempt at obtaining confirmatiion for two contacts
with C9RJJ back in 1992. Heck, that is only 13 years ago. Just a year
before I retired. Hi. I have gotten QSL requests, and in fact still get
an ocassional query about contacts from the mid 60s (ET3), and have the logs
back from my time as a Novice, before that. Does anyone here know exactly
who the op was then?
I have seen notes about people "closing out" their logs, and it has
bumfuzzeled me to see that, but I guess some people do it.
The only other note, about no logs, was from an expedition in the South
Pacific several years ago. Appears they dropped them overboard as they were
embarking from the island. Luckly, the same group again visited that
island, years later, and I worked them again. This time they protected the
logs. HI
Luckly, I have a couple of other contacts with C9 (but from the same era),
and will have to go out and try to find two more poeple who have their logs.
Danny
Danny Douglas N7DC
ex WN5QMX ET2US WA5UKR ET3USA
SV0WPP VS6DD N7DC/YV5 G5CTB
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