[DX] Question about E31A

[Mike Pickard]

Fellow DX-ers,
 
My friend Alf, G4DDS has a pesky QSL question (below) regarding E31A. I
spent a fair amount of time doing on-line searches and all postings were
from the June/August, 1999 time frame. See the example clipping below of
the 1999 news release when JH1AJT, "Zorro", was reported to be in jail
for ham license transgressions while at the same time being nominated
for DX-er of the year at the 1998 New Orleans DX Convention! After that,
there is a dearth of info. I find no more listings. 
 
Thanks for any help & 73, 
Mike K7NPN 
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
3/2/03 
Hi Mike 
Is it possible for you to find out through your DX club if the call E31A
worked in August 1993 counts for Eritrea.After sending my QSL cards to
the ARRL they have rejected my 9F2CW/A Eritrea QSL as i worked him on
the 31 Jan 1993 and they will only accept QSL's dated 1 Feb 1993 and
after.Does anyone know if the ARRL will accept the E31A for Eritrea?If
so is there a new QSL manager as i have heard that the operator is
serving time in a Japanese jail?? 
Hope everyone is keeping well and the summer is not far away 
73, ALF G4DDS 
 
-=-=-=-=- Example of the news release from 1999 -=-=-=-=-= 
Zorro Turns in his Ticket 
from ARRL Letter Aug. 25th, 1999 
The Daily DX reports that DXpeditioner Yasuo "Zorro" Miyazawa, JH1AJT,
voluntarily surrendered his Amateur Radio station license to authorities
last May. The DX newsletter, edited by Bernie McClenny, W3UR, cited a
telephone conversation with the Kanto Bureau of Telecommunications in
Tokyo, Japan, as the source of its report. Miyazawa was scheduled to
receive the DXer of the Year Award at the New Orleans International DX
Convention August 28. On June 16, the Asahi Shimbun newspaper had
reported that Miyazawa and another Japanese amateur were arrested after
allegedly obtaining an operator license under false identification. Over
the years, Miyazawa has been to many DX spots throughout Asia, Africa
and the Pacific Ocean including 7O1A, XW30/XW30A, A51/JH1AJT, XU1A,
XW8KPL, E31A, among others 
 
 


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