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Speaking of DX QSL's.....	Reply
by NC5S on October 16, 2009	Mail this to a friend!
Prior to labor day weekend of this year, my last HF QSO was in March of 2001. As I expected, QSL cards from various DX entities arrived regularly for the next 2 years. And, for a couple of years after that, the occassional card would show up at the bureau. Fortunately, the "W5" bureau has an online database that shos how many card you have on hand and how many envelopes. I checked that Bureau every so often and there was nothing there. About two months before I got back on the air, I checked the bureau and there were 3 cards for me there. I e-mailed the sorter and asked him to go ahead and send the three cards he had on hand. Two of the three that I received were cards from, previously, unconfirmed DX contacts. One from 1997 and one from 1999. Of course, I was very suprised that it had taken that long for those cards to make their way back to me. I wonder how many others have had cards take 10 years+ to make their way to you as these two did to me? You know, it's that 'inquiring minds' thing. :)

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by W1NK on October 16, 2009	Mail this to a friend!
How does 27 years grab you?? It took me that long to track down and finally confirm a 1979 QSO with KZ5OJ from the Canal Zone. Actually I had given up trying to find him. But a few years ago I posted in the Lost Hams forum that I'm trying to track down KZ5OJ. A week or two later, I get an email from Obie's brother forwarded by the forum manager. He promises to forward my info on to Obie. A year goes by with no reply and I'm ready to give up again, when I get an email from ex-KZ5OJ himself. Apparently did a search on his old call and came across my forum post. A few back and forth emails and Obie offers to confirm the QSO... he didn't have any original QSLs, but managed to scan one from the internet. 27 years later, the one that almost got away was in the bag and I could fill in the hole in my Deleted Countries list as well as check off the contact in my logbook from 1979! Frank, W1NK

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by K0RS on October 16, 2009	Mail this to a friend!
I don't think this is unusual at all. It isn't necessarily a delay in the bureau system, although some countries' bureaus can be amazingly tardy. Often a ham decides to pursue one award or another and combs his old logs for applicable Q's. I've done the same myself. I chased down some old contacts ten years after the fact and actually confirmed them, although I did it directly.

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by W2LO on October 19, 2009	Mail this to a friend!
In 2005 I finally got a card for a QSO with VS9ASP (Aden, now a deleted entity and currently part of 7O, Yemen) for a QSO in April, 1967, a wait of 38 years. I worked him that year just before the British forces that operated VS9ASP left Aden. I read shortly thereafter that the logs had been lost and no QSLs were possible. I heard in the early nineties that some people had subsequently received cards but it was one dead end lead after another. In 2004 a British friend, M0BJL, chased down many leads and found that the logs had been found some years earlier and that one op, Roy Folgate, had them. Mr. Folgate had left Britain, however, and no one knew where he was. After a lot of searching my friend found him living in Spain, fowarded my card to him, and I received my VS9ASP card. DXCC accepted it and after 38 years I had Aden confirned. As they say, "The ways of the QSL are mysterious indeed". True believers in DX never give up. Now if a certain African station would QSL my 80 meter QSO....

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