Fw: Re: [Dx-qsl] qsl returned (funny - red faced)

Sun Mar 9 19:39:01 2003

I've found MANY times, more than most would imagine, that I've received
BLANK QSL's from requesting stations !!  Stateside, and foreign alike,
both were very excited to send, so excited that the cards were blank.  I
simply replied to the QSO's I had, or if they were NIL (which sometimes
occurred) I just returned the QSL with a big ??? in the information area.

I do recall in 1 or 2 occasions that the card came back through with info
printed this time.  Many more didn't.  I'm certainly not blameless
either.  Stu, WA2MOE found me listed as a JA8 for a Jarvis Dxpedition
MANY hours off the listed time.  I had just arrived home after my
daughter was born, and was DOG tired, and evidently my CW prowess, and
ability to read a clock was somewhat clouded by 14 hours of
labor/delivery.  Thanks Stu !!  I'll keep looking also !!!

73
Ken
WA8JOC

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Subject: Re: [Dx-qsl] qsl returned (funny - red faced)
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I have found generally, that most of My received cards have the month
written in and I always do likewise, although I do Have DD MM YY on My
Cards.. As We in VK write in the Queen's English (British) that is... 9th
March 2003.... as the date HAS to Start with the DAY.... 9th  MONTH then
YEAR....  if Not why not YY MM DD.... ??
Just My opinion.... Usually US  QSLs  Do Not have the month Written...
always Numbers!! and always confusing to the computer....
73
Lee VK2LEE

----- Original Message -----
From: "Francisco Costa" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2003 12:00 PM
Subject: Re: [Dx-qsl] qsl returned (funny - red faced)

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Steven Wheatley KU9C <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>; Gary Stone <[email protected]>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 4:28 AM
> Subject: Re: [Dx-qsl] qsl returned (funny - red faced)

Gary, I find this often...many European envelopes I get  do not have the
country
It's the same thing with many direct US requests I get.
That's why I always check the envelope before put it
in the mailbox. In fact the last one I received was last friday...
However
more strange than that is a card without callsign! Yes, you got it right.
I
just got a card via buro without  callsign on it  It's one of those
generic
Italian QSL cards, and obviously
the operator forgot to fill the area reserved for call info
(hand write or stamp, usually).
Normally this was simple to track after checking the date/time. But not
this case. The QSO was done during ARRL 10m test and I loogged several
italian stations on same minute... I guess I'll never be able to reply to
this one.
  Speaking of wrong info on cards, it's very usually to see reversed
day/month on US  card (obviously because different standards).
It was much simple if stations used month word abreviation (Jan, Feb,etc)
or roman number (I, IV, etc.). Just an opinion

Have a nice sunday
73 F.Costa, CT1EAT
www.qsl.net/ct1eat

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