[Dx-qsl] Rcvd: PJ2T and...

[Ron Notarius]

Just heard back from DJ4KW.  He took a look at his log, realized the problem
("operator error" is how he put it) and will be sending me a card direct.

Nice to know that there are still quite a few gentlemen out there!

73, ron wn3vaw

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Notarius" <wn3vaw at verizon.net>
To: "DX QSL Reflector" <dx-qsl at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 4:06 PM
Subject: Re: [Dx-qsl] Rcvd: PJ2T and...


> Thanks to all who've replied so far.
>
> Almost universal opinion has been for me to contact DJ4KW via email and
> explain the situation.  So I'm going to give that a try, and then see how
to
> proceed.
>
> I was a little leery of this... I had a situation a few years ago where I
> worked a Russian Antarctic station on 17, but his manager QSL'd me for 20.
> Turned out that the error was the Russian's, he'd forgotten to indicate
the
> band change in his log (which I could demonstrate thanks to a download of
DX
> Summit spots), and the manager offered to send me a corrected card via the
> buro (unless I could send him another SAE & 2GS!).  I'm still waiting for
> that card...
>
> Hope this turns out better!
>
> 73
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Ron Notarius" <wn3vaw at verizon.net>
> To: "DX QSL Reflector" <dx-qsl at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 9:10 PM
> Subject: [Dx-qsl] Rcvd: PJ2T and...
>
>
> Well, it was an interesting pair of letters waiting for me today.
>
> First the good news:
>
> PJ2T via N9AG (ARRL DX CW 05), 4 week turn around.
>
> Now, the puzzlement:
>
> DJ4KW returned my request for a V31YN card as NIL.  He even included a log
> extract to prove it.
>
> And sure enough, at the time I thought I worked him, he worked someone
else.
> But two minutes before, his log shows WN3VA.  This proves three things:
> (a)    my clock was off;
> (b)    he busted my call;
> (c)    he didn't notice the busted call in the log extract he sent with
the
> returned card.
>
> So, I'm not sure what to do now.  First instinct is to send everything
back
> and point out the busted call in his log, and hope he corrects it (as
WN3VA
> has not, nor has it ever been, issued).  OTOH, if he chooses to stick to
the
> letter of the log, I'll be out another $4 in stamps, envelopes, and GS's.
> (And I checked my log, I did note that he had trouble copying my call...
or
> at least acknowledging that I have a long and slightly unusual one, which
is
> another story and let's not go there)
>
> Thoughts on what to do?
>
> 73, ron wn3vaw
>
> and now, the 2005 annual telling of the Jack Bogut Memorial Joke...
> They won't be serving beer at PNC Park this year...
> ...because the Pirates lost the opener *sigh*
>
>
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>
>
> &quot;Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've
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