The last few weeks have been very good to me from a QSL standpoint. After holding off on QSLing earlier in the year due to COVID-19 related interruptions to international mail I dipped my toes back in the water and sent out a bunch of requests. Here are a few of the recent successes.
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The Middle East and South Asia has always been tough for me to get contacts for, so I was happy to log Hamad at 9K2HN on 20M SSB.
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C5YK was operated by Andre (ON7YK). Contact was made on 17M using FT8.
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Found and worked Fredo (TZ4PR) on 20M SSB back in 2017.
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I worked A22EC on CW back when my CW skills, modest as they were, were still in evidence. This contact actually took place in 1989. Why didn’t I QSL over the years? I can’t say. But my recent efforts to confirm old contacts paid dividends here. Thankfully the logs were still intact and blank QSL cards still available.
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All of these cards are great, but this one is the top prize. Abu Ail is a deleted DXCC entity in the Red Sea. No one is going to work this spit of land for separate DXCC status going forward since it’s now part of Yemen. I worked A15AW in 1990 when I was back in Texas.
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