[Dx-qsl] VE2IM

Fri Dec 27 19:41:01 2002

I know.  The point was that trying to track him down took a little doing,
between callsign changes and an incorrect entries in several of the on-line
databases, and I just wanted to save someone else an envelope & $.60 stamp.

So, when are you getting a shorter call (like I should talk?)?

73, ron wn3vaw

"You'll shoot your eye out kid!"
From 'A Christmas Story,' written & narrated by Jean Shepard K2ORS (SK)
And may you get YOUR Red Ryder BB Gun (or equivalent) this year!

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nenad Stevanovic" <[email protected]>
To: "Ron Notarius WN3VAW" <[email protected]>
Cc: "DX QSL" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, December 27, 2002 7:05 PM
Subject: Re: [Dx-qsl] VE2IM

Ron,

Yuri is now using VE3DZ call, and the correct address is available at:

http://www.rac.ca

Please observe recent call sign changes for some of Canadian 'Big Guns'

Yuri  formerly VA3UZ   now   VE3DZ
Lali     "     VA3RU   now   VE3NE
Nick     "     VA3NA   now   VE3EY.

73  Nenad   VE3EXY   ....

Ron Notarius WN3VAW wrote:
>
> How many calls does this guy have?
>
> My card for VE2IM (CQ WW  02 CW Zone 2 ) was returned today, "return to
> sender, moved/unknown."  I had sent it to VE3DZ, based on the EA5EYJ
listing
> right after the contest.
>
> The catch is, I'd pulled the address for VE3DZ off my RAC Summer 02
CD-ROM,
> which shows it going to a "Fredrick Walter Creed."
>
> So, I just went into Pathfinder to see what happened.  EA5EYJ still shows
> VE3DZ, as does the GO List.  But K4UTE & Buckmaster say VA3UM... and QRZ
> says that VA3UM is now VE3UM.
>
> Now, where it gets interesting, is that further examination of RAC, CBA,
> Buckmaster, and QRZ now all say that VE2IM, VA3UM/VE3UM and VE3DZ are all
> belonging to the same person, same address!
>
> And, a search of QRZ by name also reveals that Yuri, or someone with the
> same first and last name as him, also owns N2WCQ and UR5ZQQ.  'tis enough
to
> make one's head spin!
>
> Anyway, the point of all this is just to alert anyone else who sent their
> card via VE3DZ using the Callbook CD as to what happened.  (And no, my
email
> to K1XN is still bouncing back to me -- his ISP doesn't seem to like my
ISP,
> according to my ISP, and there's nothing they can do about it, so I can't
> tell him)
>
> 73 & Happy Holidays, ron wn3vaw
>
> "New Jersey - the most American of all states.  It has everything from
> wilderness to the Mafia.  All the great things and all the worst, for
> example, Route 22."
> Jean Shepherd K2ORS (SK), Newark Sunday News, 11 January 1970
>
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