[Dx-qsl] A weird one today

[Ron Notarius W3WN]

Must be the day for it.

Received an envelope from the bureau today, under my old call.  Postage on
it for 3 oz. of cards (pre-postal increase) from me, plus another $.07
tacked on.

The envelope contained exactly 3 cards.   Hmmm.  Now, I can understand it if
that's all the cards there were, and it had been sitting awhile -- but 3
cards isn't even 1 oz, let alone 3, so why pay for the extra postage on top
of what excess I already had on there?  (And if it was because some clerk at
the counter insisted, he should be flogged for a rip-off, union or no)

But -- that wasn't the weird part.

The weird part was that one of the three cards was from FJ/AK7G, confirming
a 2003 QSO on 30 meters.  Which he had already confirmed -- in 2003, QSL'd
direct, I have the card!  (And this new card is marked "TNX QSL," so how
could he not know?)  Even weirder, this new card is marked to confirm St.
Barts, which wasn't a DXCC entity in 2003.  Oh well... this goes in the
"special" file -- no, not the circular one, a special place for very odd
cards that are nice to look at & that's all.

(And in case anyone was wondering the other two cards were 2 "routine"
contest station QSL's from Brazil.  Yeah, that was certainly an envelope
worth $.85 worth of postage! <g>)

73, ron w3wn

-----Original Message-----
From: dx-qsl-bounces at mailman.qth.net
[mailto:dx-qsl-bounces at mailman.qth.net]On Behalf Of Peter Dougherty
Sent: Monday, June 23, 2008 5:25 PM
To: dx-qsl at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [Dx-qsl] A weird one today


OK, now this is very odd. In January 2006 I sent a request with $1
and a self-addressed envelope to OM3EY for a 160m QSO. When nothing
had come back after 10 months I sent a second request in October 2006
and got an answer in about a month or so. No problem at all, and the
QSO was credited toward my DXCC.

Here's the weird part. Today, I got  my original January 2006 SAE
back, with the $1 bill still enclosed, my un-verified QSL request and
a handwritten note stating "Sri, but your $ not valid in Europe. 73 &
GL" - and sent at his cost.

Very very strange. If he was going to go through the trouble and
expense to send a reply back, why not put his card in with it and
maybe a note, too? He's always been an extremely reliable QSLer in
the past (I think I've gotten 4 or 5 bands confirmed from Eduard
since I started in 2001). Oh well, no-harm-no-foul - I now have OM on
9 bands and 3 modes so it's not an issue - just one of those things
that makes QSLing an adventure some days.



Regards,

Peter,
W2IRT


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