[Boatanchors] OT - Sort Of, A DX Info List?

[Jim]

Duane,

4B2S
Hermosillo Contest Group .
El Saucito
Hermosillo, Sonora,
MEXICO

No joy for V66F

The BURO is the best way to send and receive garden variety QSL cards.  You 
might also investigate the ARRL Logbook of the world for electronic QSL's.

DX QSLing requires a lot of research and review of the various DX bulletins. 
Unfortunately, that does not help you.
So, post the tough ones here and I will try to help you.

73,
Jim


> Hi Jim,
>
> Correct. Unfortunately many of the three character calls and temporary 
> Club calls, can not be found anywhere.
>
> On March 8th I worked V66F and 4B2S, but I can not find any such calls 
> anywhere! Very frustrating.
>
> Even worse is to work one of the very rare Iceland stations, send him a 
> card and half of your lifes savings for return postage, then get an e-mail 
> telling you that he is now 94 years old and has not operated in the past 
> fifteen years!
>
> I do not like the QSL Bureau, although I realize it does provide a 
> service, because the cards I receive are four to five years old. Last 
> month I got an envelope with fifteen cards, almost all of which were from 
> 2004. Hey! Most of the "real" Hams, (real as in Hams as we remember when 
> we were ten years old who did strange things with peculiar looking pieces 
> of metal dangling from a tree and equipment that glowed and made the 
> vertical and horizontal lines on the TV CRT reverse, we can't wait five 
> years to get a QSL card!
>
> Besides being SK and the mail forwarding time period having elapsed and 
> our QSL cards are feeding the lost mail paper shredder in Minneapolis, MN 
> ... We need to receive QSL cards before we are so old that we don't know 
> what they are when they finally arrive!
>
> I truly wish that 'qrz.com' would demand that each Ham clearly state that 
> they do not QSL, that they only QSL via a bureau but never direct, they 
> QSL only direct but no bureau etc. That would really help! Then I would 
> know whether or not to send a card plus a SAE and four green stamps to 
> these three stations I worked on March 29 in the Ukraine and Russia.
>
> I have tried sending them a very short, very concise, simply and clearly 
> worded e-mail asking if they did have me in their logs? If yes, did they 
> QSL or not.
>
> Frankly, a waste of time. About one out of fifteen ever reply. I even sent 
> the same note to their QSL Manager, if they had one.
>
> It would also really help if foreign Hams would indicate how much postage 
> an American Ham should send them for a direct reply. I have seen some that 
> say; USA send $2 or 2 IRC. That is VERY helpful! Different countries have 
> different green stamp amounts. So putting how much you need to QSL right 
> in the 'qrz.com' info is very helpful. At least to me it is.
>
> Duane
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jim" <jbrannig at optonline.net>
> To: "Duane Fischer, W8DBF" <dfischer at usol.com>; 
> <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Friday, April 17, 2009 5:48 PM
> Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] OT - Sort Of, A DX Info List?
>
>
>> Duane,
>> DX prefixes change constantly and it seems that everyone has a special 
>> event that requires another prefix variation.
>> The "Allocation of International Call Signs" table in the back of the 
>> ARRL logbook is really the only definitive listing.
>>
>> Jim
>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> Every once in a while the old blind Wizard gets the DX bug and does his
>>> favorite "Hunt And Pounce" search routine in quest of a new country or
>>> seldom heard one. It seems that I always come up with some call signs 
>>> nobody
>>> has ever heard of before! Now since I am totally blind, and can still 
>>> hear a
>>> Flea break wind at a thousand meters during traffic rush hour, I 
>>> normally
>>> get the call signs written down correctly! When in doubt, I do the 
>>> Contest
>>> unpardonable sin, I ask the operator to please give me his call sign in
>>> phoenitics. Most do, but a few say words I have to go look up in my 
>>> Flunk
>>> And Wiggle Talking Dictionary! Some very colorful metaphors!
>>>
>>> Now is there a list among the 550+ 'qsl.net' lists that deals 
>>> exclusively
>>> with DX call questions? If so, please advise me of the link and I will 
>>> go
>>> subscribe.
>>>
>>> Thanks for your help.
>>>
>>>
>>> Duane Fischer, W8DBF - WPE8CXO
>>
>>
>>
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