[WVDXA] Wow ! An early Christmas Present

[Clark L. Stewart]

Alan,

      Sounds like Santa really did come early at your place.  Now, if you 
don't mind, I'll send you all my old QSL's and maybe you can find a P5 card 
in there.  No, I can't do that as you would find the P5RS7 QSL from 
Romeo.  Oh, well, it was a thought.


Clark, W8TN


At 10:16 PM 12/10/2007 -0500, you wrote:
>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.