[Dx-qsl] Cluster-Spot SWLing

Fri Jan 5 09:55:28 EST 2007

Hi to all,

I'm an SWL. Ron's methode is very good. But, in the case of hardcore DX, it 
is some-
times not possible to get 3 contacts followed each other (even this is my 
preferred method).
If I hear a station with only 4 by 3 or 3 by 3 (and I write this on my 
SWL-card - best to give true RS reports!), it isn't possible. BUT: 2 or better 3 
contacts should occur on a SWL-report in at least in 30 min - of course not 
appearing in the cluster ...

There will always be black sheeps. Not only in SWLing. And: What is a 
QSL-card worth
for myself, if I didn't had heard the station? I like that fight of hardcore 
DXing.... :-))

just my 2 cent
vy 73
Andreas - DE1DXX (SWL) - DO1DXX (HAM)
QSL-manager DL0M and DL0KM

In einer eMail vom 05.01.2007 13:43:51 Westeuropäische Normalzeit schreibt 
ac7dx at clearwire.net:
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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Andreas Ibold - Alpen - GERMANY
SWL DE1DXX --- HAM DO1DXX
JO31GN DOK L14 CQ14 ITU28
Pse, do not forget me... I need YOUR QSL.... :-)))
Okay in QRZ.com - look at my QSL-card
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