Well, a little off-topic but never the less a "Twilight Zone" moment in my DX career - in January 1983 I watched a movie on my VCR called "Bear Island" (VHS for all us old guys) and when the movie ended I walked up into the shack, turned on the radio which just happened to be tuned to 14.220 MHz and without touching the dial I heard Odd JW4GN on Bear Island...was a new one for me I think and had a nice QSO with him and his manager Rolf LA9VX who was also on frequency.....boy, talk about coincidences!
Dino KL0S On 30Dec2010, at 1:03 PM, Zack Widup wrote: > > Great story Urb! > > I recall shortly after I got seriously interested in DXing in 1993 I > went through my old logs and found QSO's with JX5CI and a station who > had operated portable from 3A. Both QSO's were in the early 80's, I > believe. I tracked down QSL routes and sent them, hoping I could still > get cards. I received QSL's for both of them, almost 13 years later. > > I've since worked a few more people in both locations but those two > added to my DXCC totals at the time. > > 73 & HNY, > Zack W9SZ > > > On 12/30/10, Urb LeJeune <u...@usats.com> wrote: >> >> GM, >> >> In the late 1960s I was one country off the top of the honor roll, >> Heard Island. I lost interest in DX and faded away. One Heard Island >> DXpedition came and gone. Then in 1983 VK0CW was activated. I >> put up a 20 meter dipole and worked them. I could now say I worked >> them all. However, I never sent for a card. >> >> Fast forward to late 2009 and I got back on the air. I won't say >> I was away from DX for a long time but a DL was a new country. As I >> started working all time new countries I started to wonder if a card >> from VK0CW was at all possible. I posted a request for help on the >> NJDXA DX-CHAT reflector and received many replies. One of the >> replies suggest trying Dan, N2DT. >> >> Yesterday an envelope from N2DT arrived with the coveted >> VK0CW QSL and a note. The enclosed note said: >> >> "About half the log papers were ruined about 10 years ago due to >> flooding in my basement. I also didn't recall having any more blank >> VK0 QSLs. >> >> But ... because of my affection for Elliot, W2DIE (NJDXA SK) , and >> the NJDXA I dug through the water-distended packages and found an >> entry for W2DEC. Then I tore apart my store room and came upon >> 3 blank QSLs. >> >> Enjoy >> >> Dan N2DT >> >> Almost 28 years to the day after the QSO the VK0CW cards >> arrived. I now have #1 DXCC circa 1967 :-) >> >> Thanks again to all the people who replied to my request for help. >> Moral of the story, never give up on a QSL. >> >> 73 es DX >> Urb W2DEC >> >> >> >> ----------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message to >> >> imail...@njdxa.org >> >> In the message body put either >> >> unsubscribe dx-chat >> >> or >> >> subscribe dx-chat >> >> This is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org >> ----------------------------------------------------------- >> >> > > > ----------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message to > > imail...@njdxa.org > > In the message body put either > > unsubscribe dx-chat > > or > > subscribe dx-chat > > This is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org > ----------------------------------------------------------- > ----------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message to imail...@njdxa.org In the message body put either unsubscribe dx-chat or subscribe dx-chat This is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org -----------------------------------------------------------
