On Nov 1, 7:40*am, "D. Peter Maus" wrote:
On 11/1/10 01:13 , Anne Onime wrote:

He also lies about the number of countries he has QSL'ed. he claims he has heard from 239 different countries.
Well dip****, there aren't 239 countries in the world. Maybe the dickhead is thinking of COUNTIES, not countries.
Asshole.

* *You may wish to consider that as long as he's been an SWL, dozens
of countries have redefined their boundaries, changed their names,
or been formed out of other countries after revolution, or poltical
upheaval. One could, for instance, from the same station in
Slovakia, and received *three QSL's from three different countries.

Moreover, the NASWA countries list is for all nations existing since
the end of WWII; so that official SWL list will contain numerous
nations beyond those in existence at any one time.

I don't think the original poster is very clear on the accepted
conventions of the hobby.