[Dx-qsl] Cluster-Spot SWLing

Fri Jan 5 07:43:09 EST 2007

This happens a lot. I have listed the following in qrz.com:
"SWL cards should have the call before or after the call you are asking 
to confirm " otherwise, no confirmation.
73
Ron
Alfred Laun wrote:
> 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
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