Thread: QSL's received June 2010
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Old June 2nd 10, 01:17 AM posted to rec.radio.shortwave
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Default QSL's received June 2010
On 6/1/2010 2:40 PM, wrote:
QSL received from Jamestown, St. Helena Island for amateur contact on
3/15/10 on 21.240 at 1320UTC.

This is earlier than June of 2010, but seeing as there was a previous
thread about Korea and this thread about QSLs, let me take a little
poetic license and combine the two...

Got a QSL from Ed, P5/4L4FN on amateur RTTY. (P5=North Korea, 4L4FN his
Russian home call). He normally lives in Georgia (the Russian one, not
the US one) but was living in Pyongyang for some kind of U.N. food
program, and in a moment of weakness, the North Koreans let him do ham
radio for almost a year -- before they had a change of heart and threw
him off the air.

The bad news was, he was operating at 50 baud (66 wpm), the European
'standard', not the 45.45 baud (60 wpm) much more commonly used RTTY speed.

The good news was that this threw a lot of US hams off the scent...they
could not print him. Fortunately, I realized what Ed was doing and was
able to change the speed of my TNC in time to bag him.

So, it's one of my two most treasured QSLs -- the other being for a
packet radio contact with the MIR space station.
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