[Dx-qsl] FR5DX

[Tom Anderson]

Rag:

No problem I took it in the right spirit.  Instead of eating/digesting crow
feathers on Thursday, I gobbled (pun intended) two helpings of turkey, mashed
potatoes, dressing, cranberry sauces, peas, etc. and probably gained 10+ pounds hi
hi.

FYI, when our (my XYL WY5H and mine) oldest son was going through graduate school
working on his Master in Education degree and getting his teacher's certification
in social studies (geography, government, and history) he was taking a geography
course and thought he'd show up his old man by asking him where all of these
countries, islands, etc. were.  I fooled him and got every question right and was
almost able to give him the approximate short path heading from our qth.  It blew
his mind.

Same with a professor I had in graduate school in a Global Mass Communications
course when he started talking about this "super secret" island out in the middle
of the Indian Ocean, supposedly so secret that it doesn't appear on most maps, his
words.  I raised my hand and asked if he was referring to Diego Garcia VQ9 and he
couldn't figure out how I knew so much about it.  I took several VQ9 QSLs with me
to our next class.  I told him I had even had a good friend Ron (AA5DX) a Merchant
Marine radio operator stationed there and Ron had sent my XYL and I a couple
t-shirts and hats from the base exchange.

Have a great day today and a better one tomorrow.

73 es good DX
Tom, WW5L



Ragnar Otterstad wrote:

> No problem, Tom. None of us are perfect.   There is a tradition for
> geographical ignorance in USA - but hams ( DX-ers ) are more informed than
> most - for obvious reasons.
>
> Errare humanum est  -  the important thing is that we all learn from our
> mistakes  ( and perhaps somebody else�s !! hi )
>
> 73  rag LA5HE
>
> A thousand most humble pardons of my most serious, grievous misstep of saying
> D44BS was in the Canary Islands rather than politically and geographically
> correct Cape Verde Islands. An appropriate number of lashings for the faux pas
> with a 3 foot piece of RG8 has been applied.   What I get for not rechecking
> e-mail before hitting send, anyway I got the prefix right.
>
> 73 es good DX.
> Tom, WW5L
>
> Ragnar Otterstad wrote:
>
> > As a further example, one of the D44 stations (D44BS I think) used to have
> > all kinds of problems getting his QSLs when you put just Canary Islands, but
> > when he started telling folks to add VIA PORTUGAL, the QSL return rate
> jumped
> > dramatically. D44BS said his air mail from the USA was coming through
> Senegal
> > when just Canary Islands was used in the address and apparently there were
> > problems in the transfer from Senegal to the Canary Islands.
> >
> > I am not surprised you had problems in this situation as Canary islands is
> > region of Spain !
> > You sound like your president  !  hi
> >
> >   ( could not resist it !)
> >
> > 73  Rag LA5HE
> >
> > Now, more than ever, QSL.NET is in urgent need of your financial support.
> > Please help QSL.NET by sending a donation now.