[RTTY] Confirming OLD QSO's

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A few years ago, when looking at my DX totals, I realized that I had never 
requested some qsls for entities that are now deleted.
Canal Zone comes to mine.

I started by going to the DX-QSL reflector and asking and also searching the 
inet.

I did find a bunch of these old stations listed and was able to find them 
and ask for these 'moldy oldies'.
Of course some were not with us anymore, :-(
But I did manage to get a few.

Just takes some searching and asking.
What frequently happened was I'd get a email from someone telling me that op 
is now living in .... and has the call xxxxx.
Then I could search and find him and send email or snail mail.

Good luck...it just takes Google... and the right question.


On 8/5/2007 6:42:25 AM, Bill Coleman (aa4lr at arrl.net) wrote:
> On Aug 5, 2007, at 5:02 AM, ns5b at comcast.net wrote:
>
> > Found these RTTY contacts in one of my old logs that I thought I
> > had lost years ago, thus, none have been confirmed. I did upload
> > them to LoTW, but didn't get any hits. I was wondering what the
> > chances some of these can still be confirmed by paper QSL?  My call
> > was KB5IBT at the time of these contacts.
>
> [ List of contacts from 1989, 1990 deleted ]
>
> No telling. Consider that these contacts are from 17 years ago. It is
> quite possible that some of these fellows are silent keys, or have
> moved elsewhere, or their calls are otherwise no longer active.
>
> If you want the confirmations, then you must try to obtain a QSL. The
> LoTW confirmation rate for contacts this old is not high, so paper
> QSLs are your best device.
>
> Give it a shot. You may get lucky.
>
> Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL        Mail: aa4lr at arrl.net
> Quote: "Not within a thousand years will man ever fly!"
> -- Wilbur Wright, 1901
>
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