After supper I snuck downstairs and checked my email…. I noticed a notification from EQSL and so I headed over to their site to see what goodies had arrived for me…
Two cards stuck out (from the rest) each for their own reasons….
The first one was from a DXPedition I contacted on 20m back in July… According to their QRZ.com page they were not doing the Electric QSLs of any variety (no eqsl or LoTW) but as HRD sends out a EQSL every time I hit enter in my logging program there was no way really to easily not send one out…
Today this came in …
Which was a bonus… Hopefully this also means that the DXPedition has decided also to upload to Logbook of The World as this would be a new one for me…
The second card was from a SWL. I appreciate all the EQSL’s but the ones from a SWL are really special… Its nice to get a signal report especially not from the area I was talking to and also there is a chance that the SWL will one day join our ranks as an Amateur.
I got my start with an old tube receiver listening to the BBC and Radio South Africa close to 50 years ago now…. There really was a magic of radio back then as computers (let alone the internet) were not around… This even was before the madness called CB Radio had arrived… Its always a treat to confirm a SWL Report… and as this time I also had the EQSL from the party I was talking to at the time… Its the first time that ever happened for me… Lots of QSLs and lots of SWL Reports but this the first that I got both…
An interesting way to end the day….
73bob
Tags: amateur radio, Amateur Radio DX, Amateur Radio DXPedition, EQSL, Short Wave Listenener, SWL Report
