[RTTY] Confirming OLD QSO's

[Barry]

The only outstanding deleted country I could never get confirmed was 
VQ9/F.  Tried for a while, but gave up.
73,
Barry W2UP

FireBrick wrote:
> 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 moved elsewhere, or their calls are otherwise no longer active.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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Barry Kutner, W2UP             Newtown, PA