W8DFL QSL Cards - 5/9/2011
Today is right around the half-way point in this grand adventure around the globe on the airwaves of the past... I hope you're not too bored yet! :-)While cataloging the cards today, which came mainly from Sweden, I happened on one from Uppsala:I knew that sounded familiar... Then I remembered The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and how a lot of the story was based right there. It's cool seeing things you've read about, if only in fiction, become real in a way.Here's a funny one -- again from Sweden -- but this time from a short wave listener (SWL):Parma City... ;-) Stop and just read the card. Completely throwing I1CGK under the bus! Talk about dissing the dude.I looked it up and here's the card from the previous post:From the same day too! This really just makes me laugh out loud! LOL for real!The last one today is from a DXpedition in 1960:I just dig the DXpeditions! This one activated the Coco's Island entity. Even if it didn't say DX-pedition on the card you can tell simply by looking at the printed "April ___ 1960" date. There's no way you'd be doing that if you didn't send out a ton of just those -- and the only way you'd be doing that is if you were working the pileup that you caused by being the rare one!The last one is an odd one:This is the first amateur radio call that doesn't have a number in it. "PZ" is a valid prefix for Suriname... and the card has a "1" in it in the address and the "I" doesn't look like that at all. I tried to look it up and got nowhere... anyone have a clue about this one?[smugmug url="http://vec.smugmug.com/hack/feed.mg?Type=gallery&Data=16982903_crXpfq&format=rss200" imagecount="100" start="1" num="100" thumbsize="Th" link="lightbox" captions="false" sort="true" window="true" smugmug="true" size="L"]
Call | File | Alt | Country | City | Post code | Date | Band | Mode | Comments |
PZ5RK | 8R1W | Suriname | Paramaribo | Aug 12, 1970 | 15 | SSB | |||
PZICU | Suriname | Paramaribo | Jan 17, 1971 | 10 | SSB | No number - WTF? | |||
SK7BD | Sweden | Oskarshamn | Oct 31, 1970 | 15 | SSB | ||||
SL5AB | Sweden | Uppsala | Oct 13, 1959 | 10 | Fone | ||||
SM0DDZ | Sweden | Huddìnge | Aug 30, 1974 | 20 | Fone | ||||
SM4KF | Sweden | Insjön | 1958 | 10 | Fone | No date - dupe time!! | |||
SM5-3583 | Sweden | Uttran | Oct 5, 1972 | 15 | SSB | Interesting message | |||
SM5EAC | Sweden | Mjölby | Feb 7, 1970 | 15 | SSB | ||||
SM5EXE-1 | Sweden | Linköping | Sep 21, 1970 | 15 | SSB | ||||
SM5EXE-2 | Sweden | Linköping | Sep 21, 1970 | 15 | SSB | Dupe, but different! | |||
SM6ANC-1 | Sweden | Mölndal | Nov 1, 1958 | 10 | AM | ||||
SM6ANC-2 | Sweden | Mölndal | Nov 1, 1958 | 10 | AM | QRM | |||
SM6CKU | Sweden | Kinna | May 15, 1967 | 20 | SSB | ||||
SM6CTC | Sweden | Karlsborg | Jan 10, 1972 | 15 | SSB | ||||
SM7QC | Sweden | Alvesta | Oct 10, 1959 | 10 | AM | Hand stamp | |||
SP9CV | Poland | Swierczewkiego | 17/46 | Jun 16, 1976 | 20 | SSB | Just after Ennie was born! | ||
SV1AE | Greece | Athens | Sep 23, 1959 | 10 | Fone | ||||
SV1AI | Greece | Athens | Oct 21, 1959 | 10 | Fone | ||||
TG9TS | ZP4BB/ZP5CB/HR1CB | Guatemala | Guatemala City | May 9, 1959 | 10 | Fone | |||
TI9AM | TI2PI | Coco's Island | Coco's Island | Apr 12, 1960 | 10 | Fone | Costa Rica - DXpedition |