[Dx-qsl] Cluster-Spot SWLing

Fri Jan 5 07:21:59 EST 2007

As the Manager of a QSL Bureau one sometimes finds curious things.
Every so often a shipment of QSLs comes in from one SWL R4H-73, who
says his ham call is RW4HT. Last month a bunch of his cards arrived,
reporting allegedly overheard QSOs as far back as 1990 and as recently
as 2004.
For example:
K3VA was active as KP2/K3VA in November 2004. Looking at DX Summit
one finds that one operator erroneously reported the call as KP2/KV3A.
 Sure enough R4H-73 reports hearing KP2/KV3A at that very moment.
In all of 1999 there was exactly one put-out on DX Summit for
VP9/WA3PXX. Sure enough, the intrepid R4H-73 just happened to be
listening to him at that very moment.
IN 2001 there was a contest operation signing 5B4/R3CC. One operator
mistakenly put out the call as 5B4/K3CC, and R4H-73 reports hearing
5B4/K3CC at that very moment.
R4H-73 also hears marvellously on VHF. As a matter of fact he claims
to have overheard a QSO C6ALW made with WV2V on 6 meters in 2002. And
in 2003 he overheard C6A/W3CWP working K7BV on that band.
I wonder what the ISWL thinks about this sort of thing!
73, Fred Laun, K3ZO
Manager
NCDXA/ARRL Third Call Area Incoming QSL Bureau