[Dx-qsl] QRZ and Buckmaster

[N7DC@cs.com]

For some reason tonight, I can not get into either QRZ or Buckmaster URL 
pages I have used for quite some time, with both coming up saying the URL is 
invalid.  Im trying to find out what the real info is for TR8CA, worked 20 
June 2000.  I have, at different times, written down here that it was VIA 
K9ICC,F6CBC, F6BOL and with an address of 18 Rue des ulnes, 81600 Rivieres , 
France (apparently one of the managers I have tried.
Just got the card back again, this time from the buro with "Sorry Country 
without Bureau".  Apparently someone cant read too well as it is distinctly 
marked via        F6BCL.   

Also in this buro package, which arrived today, was a card sent to IT9AMZ, 
marked return to sender, This card cannot be delivered by ARI QSO Bureau - 
Italy,,, and it was in response of a card received from that station, via the 
buro.  OH WELL-

       A third received back was from OD5/OK1MN marked "not use our QSL 
service"
I just love DXers who dont use their own buro for incoming cards- and yes I 
know they often have to belong to their nantional organization to qualify.  I 
do too, Luckly none of these are my only contact/cards with subject countries 
and are gonna go into the bit bucket here if I dont find a buro or manager 
for them.  


Received a package of about 75 cards today  Nothing giving me a new country 
confirmed (still need 7) and that 1A0KM the manager has been promising me via 
the buro still isnt here after 2 years of promising me it was coming.  I have 
sent for 5 contacts with him, 3 different times direct- with SASE and $, and 
3 times via the buro.  Four emails have been sent in the past year and once 
he responded that if he received mine, he has sent me one.  Then upon the 
next email, he said it had been sent via the buro, and the next email reply 
said the same thing.  The last email I sent last month after Italian cards 
came, has gone unanswered.  This is also the same station I worked in 1998, 
so no joy there.  1A0SOV  was worked in 1996, with same results in collecting 
a card.  These guys have great fun working the stations, too bad they dont 
bother to follow up on problems like this.  




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