[Dx-qsl] Cluster-Spot SWLing

[Alfred Laun]

As the Manager of a QSL Bureau one sometimes finds curious things.

Every so often a shipment of QSLs comes in from one SWL R4H-73, who
says his ham call is RW4HT.  Last month a bunch of his cards arrived,
reporting allegedly overheard QSOs as far back as 1990 and as recently
as 2004.

For example:

K3VA was active as KP2/K3VA in November 2004.  Looking at DX Summit
one finds that one operator erroneously reported the call as KP2/KV3A.
 Sure enough R4H-73 reports hearing KP2/KV3A at that very moment.

In all of 1999 there was exactly one put-out on DX Summit for
VP9/WA3PXX.  Sure enough, the intrepid R4H-73 just happened to be
listening to him at that very moment.

IN 2001 there was a contest operation signing 5B4/R3CC.  One operator
mistakenly put out the call as 5B4/K3CC, and R4H-73 reports hearing
5B4/K3CC at that very moment.

R4H-73 also hears marvellously on VHF.  As a matter of fact he claims
to have overheard a QSO C6ALW made with WV2V on 6 meters in 2002.  And
in 2003 he overheard C6A/W3CWP working K7BV on that band.

I wonder what the ISWL thinks about this sort of thing!

73, Fred Laun, K3ZO
Manager
NCDXA/ARRL Third Call Area Incoming QSL Bureau