[Dx-qsl] ER4DX

[Gary Morgan]

I tried twice with no luck, then sent an International Registered 
Letter and included mint Moldoval postage & a g.s. I got the card with 
a terse note which said, "Second card for u, om" or some such...sure 
enough, a couple of months later a card arrived via buro...
73s,
gary kd0al

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Dougherty <pjd@panix.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 14:58:09 -0400
Subject: [Dx-qsl] ER4DX

>My experience is that Moldova is one of the hardest entities to get a
>card 
>out of. After 4 tries and more than a year waiting, I've still not
>gotten 
>anything. And I'm not alone. I wrote a series of posts to the DX News 
>reflector a couple of weeks ago, and I got a tremendous response from 
>others saying the same thing. ER4DX reportedly does QSL from time to
>time, 
>but I think he's about the only one. I haven't gotten one from him yet
>for 
>contacts on 15 and 20.
>
>And it's not as if Moldova is a rare one to work, either. ER1QQ, for 
>example, has a very loud, booming signal all the time. Easy as heck to
>work. He'll always tell you to QSL via QRZ.COM, but I don't think
>anybody's 
>ever gotten a card from him. Not just that, but whenever anybody
>questions 
>him about their card arriving, he just repeats QSL via QRZ.COM. 73
>QRZ? I'm 
>not normally of a suspicious nature, but....
>
>I gave one last try, this time using mint stamps from Moldova instead
>of 
>Green Stamps or IRCs. We'll see, but I'm not betting the farm on
>seeing 
>anything back at all. I can't think of one other country that's been
>harder 
>to get a card out of, and I'm up to 197 confirmed. Not even Pakistan, 
>Turkmenistan, Azerbijain or Kyrgystan were anywhere near that bad. Got
>all 
>of those within a 3 month window, more of less. Kaliningrad was also
>pretty 
>bad (about a year direct, but I finally got one last week--with 5 more
>still waiting).
>
>You know, I'd even volunteer to manage a station from there, but I
>somehow 
>don't think my offer would be acted upon. I suspect a few of those
>stations 
>like the status quo just nicely.
>
>- pjd
>
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