[WVDXA] Wow ! An early Christmas Present

[W8op at aol.com]

Some of you may remember me posting a comment last winter about working a  
station on South Orkney Is. And the station not being good for DXCC (the  
operator was on South Orkney Is. but he had let his Argentine license  expire).
 
Well, today I received my latest DXCC application credits, stickers,  etc. 
 
Well, on the Credit Slip, under "the following cards have not been credited  
for the indicated reason" was a REAL SURPRISE:
 
    I had sumitted an LU qsl for credit of working LU  on 20 meters.  They 
rejected the qsl and said to "resubmit to clarify". I  dug the card out of the 
box and sure enough, the QSL was LU1ZA - South Orkney  Islands.  I had blindly 
received the card (back in 1990, no less) and  submitted it as Argentina.
 
The real problem was: the card did NOT say South Orkney but Base Naval  
"Orcadas".  Which is on South Orkney.  
 
I guess we live and learn.  But what great news.  
 
That gives me 318 confirmed Mixed now.  
 
READ YOUR CARDS (old & new ones) WELL.  You may find some  interesting 
discoveries.
 
Alan W8OP
 
p.s. I submitted the application at The Mill on August 25, it was entered  
into the DXCC system on Sept. 5, I was credited with the countries on Nov. 28  
and received in the mail today Dec.10.  That gives you all an idea of the  time 
line for applications.



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